Premium SMS Malware 'ExpensiveWall' Infects Millions of Android Devices

Google has ejected 50 apps from its Google Play store that were harboring mobile malware dubbed ExpensiveWall. The malware, which was downloaded between 1 million to 4.2 million times, sends fraudulent premium SMS messages for fake fee-based services without the knowledge or permission of users,...

IT threat evolution Q2 2017. Statistics

Q2 figures According to KSN data, Kaspersky Lab solutions detected and repelled 342, 566, 061 malicious attacks from online resources located in 191 countries all over the world. 33, 006, 783 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by web antivirus components. Attempted infections by malware tha...

First Android-Rooting Trojan With Code Injection Ability Found On Google Play Store

A new Android-rooting malware with an ability to disable device’ security settings in an effort to perform malicious tasks in the background has been detected on the official Play Store. What's interesting? The app was smart enough to fool Google security mechanism by first pretending itself to b...

Google Removes Rooting Trojan Dvmap From Play Store

Google removed a nasty Trojan from Google Play earlier this week that could have rooted Android devices and injected malicious code into an infected device’s system library. The malware, dubbed Dvmap, was disguised as a game that had been downloaded more than 50,000 times prior to its removal,...