Analyzed 15 malicious wallpaper apps we found on Google Play Store running click ad fraud schemes. The apps recorded over 200,000 downloads worldwide — our telemetry shows infection to be the highest in some countries in Europe, the US, and Asia — before they were removed.
Read More Several apps on Google Play posing as legitimate voice messenger platforms have automated functions such as fake survey pop-ups and fraudulent ad clicks. Observed variants were deployed one by one since October, with its evolution including evasive techniques and its infection behavior divided into several stages, as well as botnet codes possibly indicative of future attacks.
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Last year, we saw the Fanta SDK malware target Russian bank Sberbank users and employ unique defensive measures. Now, another bank malware family has appeared, targeting even more Russian banks while using new and evolved obfuscation techniques. This family is named FakeBank, and so far the related samples we have collected number in the thousands. These samples show that the malware targets not only Sberbank, but also other Russian banks like Letobank and the VTB24 bank.
Read MoreThe discovery of the first Stagefright vulnerability last July is turning out to be just the beginning of many security concerns for Android users. The latest Nexus security bulletin released earlier this month includes updates for 15 remote code execution vulnerabilities related to libstagefright, all tagged as critical. We discovered four of the mentioned vulnerabilities…
Read MoreThe “hits” keep on coming for Android’s mediaserver component. We have discovered yet another Android mediaserver vulnerability, which can be exploited to perform attacks involving arbitrary code execution. With this new vulnerability, an attacker would be able to run their code with the same permissions that the mediaserver program already has as part of its…
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