More Apps Pulled From Android Market Over Hidden SMS Functionality

There has been another round of malicious apps discovered in the official Android Market, with this wave containing hidden functionality to send SMS messages to premium-rate numbers. The apps, which Google has pulled from the Market already, are counterfeit versions of popular games, including...

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...

Bogus Netflix Application For Android Steals Passwords, Won't Let You Watch Movies

A report from Symantec claims that malware authors tricked an untold number of Netflix users into coughing up their account credentials with a Trojan horse application that doubled as a Netflix app for the Android platform. In a blog post, Symantec researcher Irfan Asrar writes about a new piece ...

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...

Android Malware Increasing, AutoRun Attacks Still Prevalent

The recent trend of attackers focusing their attention on mobile platforms such as Android, Symbian and iOs is continuing to accelerate, researchers say, and the threats to smartphones are becoming more and more sophisticated and dangerous. Android is becoming the focus of much of the attention...

Android Malware Found Stealing Texts, Intercepting Calls

The steady drumbeat of malware and spyware targeting the Android platform is continuing, this time with the emergence of a new variant of an Android Trojan that masquerades as a Google+ app and has the ability to not only record phone calls, but also to answer incoming calls and respond to remote...

DroidDream Again Appears in Android Market Apps

For Android users, the refrain must be getting a little tiresome: Researchers have found another batch of apps in the Android Market that were infected with malware. Once again, it was the DroidDream malware family causing the trouble, but this time, it was just a handful of apps and they were on...

New SMS Trojan Targeting Android Users

The Apple iPhone may still be the gold standard when it comes to smartphones, but the Android platform has become the playground of choice for attackers and malware authors looking to make a quick buck. The latest example is a premium-rate SMS Trojan that not only automatically sends costly SMS...

DroidDream Returns, Dozens of Apps Pulled From Android Market

Researchers have identified a second large batch of apps in the Android Market that have been infected with the DroidDream malware, estimating that upwards of 30,000 users have downloaded at least one of the more than 30 infected apps. Google has removed the apps from the market. There are at lea...

SMS Trojan Found in Several Android Apps

Google has removed a group of mobile phone applications from its Android Market after it was discovered that the applications contained code that could be used to send SMS Short Message Service spam. Google’s action came after a security firm in Taiwan published a security alert about the apps on...

Google's security tool infected with trojan !

It's pretty bold and a cunning coup; criminals have installed a trojan in the Android Market Security Tool that Google is distributing to delete the contaminated apps that recently popped up on the Android Market. As users have been told to expect to see the application running on their phones...

Opinion: Google's DroidDream Patch Pushes The Envelope

Google announced plans yesterday to fortify the Android Market in response to the appearance of the DroidDream Trojan, but do the company’s plans cross the line from innovative to intrusive? In a blog post, Kaspersky Labs researcher Timothy Armstrong warns that the search giant’s plans to repair...

Google Throws App Kill Switch On DroidDream

Google has announced plans to implement new security features in order to strengthen the defenses of the Android Market following the appearance of a Trojan horse, DroidDream, targeting devices running the company’s Android mobile operating system. In a post on Google’s official Android blog, Ric...

Android Market XSS Bug Allowed Code Execution on Mobile Devices

A simple, trivially exploitable persistent cross-site scripting bug on the Google Android Web Market allowed anyone to upload an app that could be used to later run arbitrary code on the user’s Android device. The vulnerability, which Google has patched, enabled an attacker to silently install hi...

Analysis Shows DroidDream Trojan Designed for Future Monetization

A detailed analysis of the DroidDream Trojan that was found in dozens of apps in the Android Market this week shows that the malware has a modular construction that likely was designed to give attackers the ability to monetize infected devices through installations of adware or spyware. The Troja...

DroidDream: Our Wake-Up Call For Mobile Security

Security researchers today pulled more than 20 apps in the Official Android Market after they were found to have been infected with the DroidDream malware. Analysis of the DroidDream malware suggests that it can gather sensitive data like a mobile device’s IMEI International Mobile Equipment...

DroidDream Attack Underscores Weaknesses of App Stores

The Android Market incident that surfaced Wednesday in which Google was forced to pull more than 20 apps that had been Trojaned is the latest piece of evidence that the mobile app store model is broken and is setting users up for failure. The details of the Android Market episode should be famili...

Malware-Infected Apps Yanked From Android Market

A large number of apps in the Android Market have been found to contain a piece of malware known as DroidDream, a Trojan that not only is able to harvest sensitive data from an infected device, but also can break out of the Android sandbox and download additional malicious code to the phone from...