Adaptable, All-in-One Android Trojan Shows the Future of Malware

A new Android trojan, dubbed “GPlayed”, has been identified by researchers who said the malware is both extremely dangerous and could herald a new and very dangerous age for malicious code, according to Cisco Talos researchers. The trojan has all of the capabilities of a banking trojan as well as...

GPlayed Trojan - .Net playing with Google Market

This blog post is authored by Vitor Ventura. Introduction In a world where everything is always connected, and mobile devices are involved in individuals' day-to-day lives more and more often, malicious actors are seeing increased opportunities to attack these devices. Cisco Talos has identified...

Mobile Menace Monday: A race to hidden ads

Who doesn’t love a good motorcycle racing game, right? How about one easily available on Google Play, a “safe” place for all your Android app desires? How about a bike racing game that sticks with you so much, you can’t easily uninstall it? And it displays hidden ads? Wait, what!? That’s right! I...

Android Trojan Now Targets Non-Banking Apps that Require Card Payments

The infamous mobile banking trojan that recently added ransomware features to steal sensitive data and lock user files at the same time has now been modified to steal credentials from Uber and other booking apps as well. Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered a new variant of the...

SpyNote RAT Now Disguised As Netflix App

A new version of the SpyNote Trojan is designed to trick Android users into thinking it’s a legitimate Netflix application. Once installed, the remote access Trojan RAT essentially hands control of the device over to the hacker, enabling them to copy files, view contacts, and eavesdrop on the...

SlemBunk Part II: Prolonged Attack Chain and Better-Organized Campaign

Introduction Our follow-up investigation of a nasty Android banking malware we identified at the tail end of last year has not only revealed that the trojan is more persistent than we initially realized – thus making for a much more dangerous threat – but that it is also being used as part of an...

New Strain of Banking Trojan Targets Android, Steals SMS

A relatively new Android Trojan that specializes in stealing banking information by intercepting SMS messages has been making the rounds. Researchers at zScaler spotted the as yet unnamed Trojan circulating as 888.apk. Like many types of malware that came before it, at least for the moment, the...

Tor Network used to Host 900 Botnets and hidden Darknet Markets

Tor network offers users browse the Internet anonymously and is mostly used by activists, journalists to conceal their online activities from prying eyes. But it also has the Dark side, as Tor is also a Deep Web friendly tool that allows hackers and cyber criminals to carry out illicit activities...

Microsoft, Kaspersky Shed Light on Sefnit Tor Botnet

Alarm bells went off last August when spikes in Tor client downloads were traced to a large click-fraud and Bitcoin-mining botnet called Sefnit. The malware was using the popular anonymity network to communicate with hackers in order to transmit stolen data and receive additional commands. In...

South Korea hit by Android Trojan, Malware in Gaming apps and DDoS attack

Last Tuesday, The National Police Agency of South Korea warned the people that many Malware infected video games being offered in the South Korean markets with the purpose of launching Cyber attacks on the Country. That Malware is collecting location data and IP addresses of infected users and...

South Korea hit by Android Trojan, Malware in Gaming apps and DDoS attack

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Mobile Madness

Admit it. It would scarcely break your heart if the legions of slack-jawed smartphone Facebook and FourSquare gawkers were forced to confront their own digital mortality – however briefly – with a few scary exploits made just for them. In 2011, the untethered among us saw several mobile security...

QR codes - Next way for Android Malware

Once a user scans the QR code, the code redirects them to a site that will install a Trojan on their Android smart phones. Kaspersky's SecureList blog has a report of a malicious QR code on a web site which when scanned directs the user to a URL; the linked site doesn't have a file matching the...

QR Codes Found Sending Users to Site Containing Android Trojan

QR codes have been showing up everywhere in the last few months, from magazine ads to the sides of buses to, oddly, billboards. And now they’ve shown up on the list of ways that attackers are delivering malware to victims, with the emergence of a new Android-based Trojan that is hiding on malicio...

CA security finds Android Trojan which records phone calls

CA security finds Android Trojan which records phone calls A new Android Trojan is capable of recording phone conversations, according to a CA security researcher. The trojan is triggered when the Android device places or receives a phone call. It saves the audio file and related information to t...

CA security finds Android Trojan which records phone calls

CA security finds Android Trojan which records phone calls A new Android Trojan is capable of recording phone conversations, according to a CA security researcher. The trojan is triggered when the Android device places or receives a phone call. It saves the audio file and related information to t...

New Android Trojan Surfaces in China

Lookout Mobile Security discovered a new Android based Trojan called HongTouTou aka ADRD Trojan that is packaging itself in popular Android apps and delivering itself through app markets and Chinese forums. This piece of malware is requesting additional permissions from users and may also be...

Updated Android Trojan Pushed in SEO Attacks

Mobile attacks may have reached a tipping point, as researchers observe search engine optimization used to spread a malicious program for mobile devices running the Android operating system. One month after researchers first identified a Trojan horse program that targets mobile devices running...