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Active mobile botnet enslaves thousands of Android devices

A trojanized Android application for configuring phone settings has been enslaving the devices of the customers of China’s two largest mobile carriers into a botnet …

More bogus ad-serving Android apps evade Google’s Bouncer

Users searching for games on the official Android Market have lately been heavily targeted by ad-pushing scammers. First it was the fake Temple Run app, and now a string of …

Fake Temple Run app found on Android Market

Android users who were looking forward to playing the popular Temple Run game – currently available only for iOS devices – have probably thought that the happy day …

Server-side polymorphic Android apps

Server-side polymorphism as a technique to serve unique malware versions that evade signature-based detection to Windows users is used by many malware peddlers on a regular …

Google reveals it is already scanning Android apps for malware

Even though most malicious Android apps are served from third-party app markets, cyber crooks occasionally manage to disseminate some via Google’s official Android …

HTC Android phones allow apps to harvest users’ Wi-Fi password

A bug in the way some Android-running HTC smartphones handle requests for password allows some applications to send the user’s Wi-Fi network username, password and SSID …

Millions of infected Android apps… or not?

Over the weekend, several websites picked up Symantec’s story about Trojanized apps on the official Android Market. This happens from time to time, but what got …

Counterclank: Info-stealing Trojan or advertising tool?

A couple of days ago, Symantec has warned about Counterclank, an Android Trojan that has been unknowingly installed by users on over five million devices. This huge number was …

Unwanted apps on Android smartphones

Third-party Android markets have always been the favorite means of malicious app dissemination, especially in regions like Asia, where users don’t have access to the …

HiDrive Free: New cloud service

HiDrive Free, a cloud-based service from STRATO, launched in the U.S. offering users 5GB of free online storage. With HiDrive Free, users can back up their data at a central …

Samsung introduces suite of security features for Android

The Samsung Galaxy Note and Galaxy Tab 7.7 will be the first Samsung Approved for Enterprise (SAFE) devices provided to consumers who wish to use their own mobile devices in …

Android Trojan masquerades as phone optimizer app

As you may already know, Android users are at a much bigger danger of getting saddled with a malicious app than users using other mobile platforms – especially those …

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