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 ...

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...

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...