We're seeing more and more scams on the Android Market. Last week, we wrote about a developer that uses popular app names to trick users into downloading fake ones. Before that, we saw a fake Temple Run app making the rounds on the Android Market. This time, we saw 37 more apps that share a similar behavior as the previously reported ones. These are "fan apps," which means that these aren't the real game created by the original developer.
I noticed ...
Shortly after we reported about a fake Temple Run app in the Android Market, we were alerted to yet another developer that uses popular apps as guises to trick users into downloading rogue apps.
Here, you can see the developer's name which appears to be quite similar to the one who developed the popular game, Angry Birds. You'll notice, though, that the said popular game is not on the list of this particular developer’s offered apps.
Looking closely, the developer is not ...
We've recently found a server that hosts a great number of sites that are used to launch mobile malware, targeting Android OS and Symbian (specifically the J2ME platform).
The server, located in Germany, is managed by a hosting provider known as a haven for cyber criminals.
We found a total of 1,351 websites hosted on the said server and categorize the sites into five segments based on the type of guise they use for the distributed malware:
Android Market apps
Opera Mini/ Phone Optimizer ...
In our daily monitoring of the mobile threat landscape, we found a copy of the game Temple Run in the Android Market. Temple Run is a popular game app currently available for iOS only. I checked the app and immediately noticed something odd about it. I decided to analyze it to check if my doubts had any basis.
This copy of Temple Run (or so it claims) is seen as available on the Android Market. But if you’ll check the information on ...
Last week we came across a report about a Plankton variant embedded in various apps emerging in the Android Market. One of the samples we inspected is a puzzle game called Sexy Ladies-2.apk, which is detected as ANDROIDOS_PLANKTON.P along with many other apps related to it.
Other external reports tell of the millions of app downloads with similar suspect code, which led to coining it as the "largest Android malware outbreak ever". In that report, the analyzed application is a puzzle game. It ...
