Despite Arrests, Android Malware Persists in Japan

Android malware developers in Japan continue to peddle their product across the Internet and through the Google Play marketplace, undeterred by recent arrests in the nation. Over the last few weeks spammers have ramped up circulation of the Android.Enesoluty malware in emails, in addition to...

Half Million Chinese Android Devices got infected with SMSZombie

The amount of malware crafted and aimed at Android devices is ever-increasing. With Android being the most popular platform for smartphones and tablets around the world, Android users have become the low-hanging fruit when it comes to writing malware by the nefarious users. A new Android threat h...

OpFake, FakeInst Android Malware Variants Continue to Resist Detection

Android devices have remained a constant target of attacks over the last quarter thanks in part to new variants from the FakeInst and OpFake families of malware. According to the latest version of the F-Secure Mobile Threat Report, the firm found 5033 malicious Android application packages APKs, ...

New OpFake Android Malware Entices Users With Opera Mini Browser

There is a new variant of the OpFake mobile malware making the rounds, and this version comes bundled with a version of the legitimate Opera Mini mobile browser. The malware targets Android phones and steals money from victims by sending SMS messages without the user’s knowledge to premium-rate...

Report: Bandwith-Burning Malware Among Biggest Consumer Threats

A new malware report indicates Android malware samples grew three-fold last quarter and that one in every 140 devices connected to mobile networks was infected at some point. Closer to home, about 14 percent of household networks were hit by malware this spring, with a 50 percent increase in...

Bogus Facebook apps spreading Android malware

Bogus Facebook apps spreading Android malware Third-party Android markets have traditionally been the main source of infection since the Android boom, as they are less strict than the genuine Play when it comes to bouncing malware. Today Gmanetwork reports that, Users of mobile devices running...

TigerBot - SMS Controlled Android Malware Stealing Information

TigerBot - SMS Controlled Android Malware Stealing Information A new form of Android malware controlled via SMS messages has been discovered and the malware can record phone calls, upload the device's GPS location, and reboot the phone, among other things. Researchers at NQ Mobile, working...

New Android Malware Variant Can Remotely Root Phone

A new version of Android malware has been tweaked so it doesn’t require user interaction for an attacker to own the device, according to research published by Lookout Mobile Security yesterday. An updated variant of the Legacy Native LeNa malware utilizes the GingerBreak exploit to gain root...

Android.Bmaster Exploits root access to connect to Botnet

Android.Bmaster Exploits root access to connect to Botnet A new piece of Android malware named Android.Bmaster, first highlighted by researcher Xuxian Jiang at North Carolina State University, was uncovered on a third-party marketplace and is bundled with a legitimate application for configuring...

Android Malware, Up 472 Percent, Seeing Fastest Growth Ever

As Android market share has shot up in recent months, so has the volume of malware designed for the mobile platform. There’s been a whopping 472 percent increase in Android malware samples in the last three months alone, according to research from Juniper Networks. While September saw a 28 percen...

China is the birth place for most of malicious Android apps

China is the birth place for most of malicious Android apps Mobile malware is rising, and there have been explosions in the world of viruses and Trojans. Virus makers are now targeting mobile platforms- thanks to their growing popularity. If we take the statistics from last 6 months, the chances ...

Android malware - Works on remote commands form encrypted blog

Android malware - Works on remote commands form encrypted blog Researchers from Trend Micro have spotted a piece of malicious software for Android. This is the first known Android malware that reads blog posts and interprets these as commands. It can also download and install additional...

New DroidDream Variant Has Ability To Fight Off Other Malware

DroidDream, a malicious program that targets Android devices, received a major overhaul, and now contains more features for stealing data and phishing the owners of compromised Android phones and tablets, according to a Trend Micro researcher. The latest update to the DroidDream malware, which...

Report: Q2 Threat Evolution, the Year of the Hacktivist?

Scareware and Rogue AV are back with a vengeance in 2011, after receding in 2010 according to Kaspersky Lab’s latest threat evolution report. According to the report, the rogue AV resurgence is significant not only in scope, which was substantial, with the Kaspersky Security Network KSN detecting...

Google: Spyware Found, Removed from Android Market

Google says it has suspended a number of suspicious applications from the Android Market after researchers at NC State announced they had discovered a new and particularly stealthy piece of spyware, dubbed “Plankton,” lurking in Android applications there. According to a report by computer scienc...

A Soldier's Hacked Smartphone Is Risky

Hacked smartphones could endanger troops by sending location data to the enemy using mechanisms similar to those employed by recently discovered Android malware, experts say. Read the full article. Network World...