In the past couple of weeks, there has been some breathless reporting about how iOS users could now install pirated apps without having to jailbreak their phones. This was made possible by certain Chinese app store-like services.
Some of the reporting has been wondering how this was possible, but anyone with knowledge of iOS enterprise deployments knew what was going on. The same features which allow enterprises to deploy their own custom apps have now been abused to deliver pirated apps ...
Apart from those apps that register users for unwanted services and those that aggressively push ads, Android users should also worry about apps with backdoor capabilities.
While premium service abusers and adware accounted for the majority of malicious apps in 2012, they are, however, not the only threats to Android. Reports of a botnet running on more than a million of smartphones recently made the headlines, which goes to show that attacks aimed at Android devices are varied and far from ...
The "post-PC era" is a phrase which has been a veritable buzzword for some time. However, 2012 saw cybercrime expanding to mobile platforms, highlighting how threats have entered the post-PC era, too.
Mobile Threats: 350,000 and Growing
By the end of 2012, the number of Android malware grew to 350,000. This was a monumental growth from the 1,000 mobile malware we saw at the end of 2011. Much of this growth was driven by adware and premium service abusers, which accounted for ...
Just days after its release on the Apple App Store, some sites are already offering their own dubious versions of Temple Run 2 for Android.
With 20 million downloads just 4 days after its release on the Apple App Store, Temple Run 2 is indeed highly-anticipated among Temple Run fans and gaming fanatics. While the Android version of the game is scheduled for release this Thursday, we already found certain websites peddling what appears to be Temple Run 2 for Android.
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Recently, we found that Android's debugging feature could be used to steal information from apps running on an Android device. We won't go into the full details of the problem here, but here is the short version: with some effort, an app can be set up on Android to debug another running app. This debugging app would have access to all the information the debugged app has, so items like user names and passwords are trivial to steal.
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