Apple Addresses New SMS Trojan in Malware Lists

Apple has made updates to its malware definitions to address yesterday’s news of a new OS X Trojan, SMSSend.3666, that was disguising itself as legitimate software and confounding Russian users. The Trojan, first blogged about by antivirus firm Dr. Web, tricked users into entering their cell phon...

Fake Flash Player, Laden with Malware, Making Rounds

Scammers have already begun to take advantage of Adobe’s recent decision to remove its Flash Player from Android’s Google Play marketplace. Last week’s removal has prompted scammers to start promoting fake versions of the software to unsuspecting smartphone owners. While researching the scamware,...

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, ...

Foncy is Dead, Long Live Mania

In the middle of January 2012 Foncy was updated: it started to spread together with an IRC bot and a root exploit. But the end of the Foncy story was very close because in February two suspected authors of this malware were arrested in Paris: you can read the story here in French and here in...

Fake Angry Birds Game spreading Malware from Android Market

Fake Angry Birds Game spreading Malware from Android Market From last week premium rate SMS Trojans surfaced in the Android Market. Google has pulled 22 apps that are masquerading as legitimate versions of popular games like Angry Birds and Cut the Rope. Security researchers have discovered a way...

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...

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...

'SMS of Death' Attacks Can Crash the Simplest of Phones

Malicious text messages can crash many types of mobile phones, including devices by Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and LG, according to a presentation given at the Chaos Communication Congress hacking conference this week in Berlin. Nicknamed ‘SMS of Death,’ the attacks were outlined by Collin...

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...

iPhones, BlackBerrys, Droids Becoming a Moveable Feast for Attackers

Since at least the time of the iPhone’s introduction in 2007, mobile phones have been moving toward their inevitable evolutionary destiny of becoming full-on handheld computers, complete with complex operating systems, the ability to run multiple applications and store large amounts of data. And...