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“You Want To Pay For What!?”

May 3, 2012 – 2:24 pm

by Nathan Collier Recently we found new apps in alternative Chinese markets that we are considering a Potentially Unwanted Application (PUA).  We are calling these apps Android.PUA.SMS.QuickPay.  Lets look at a sample of this app.  The sample we will look at is an app called “Screen Detection” which is an app that helps find dead [...]

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Rogue APKs continue to find new homes

March 22, 2012 – 2:32 pm

by Armando Orozco We’ve been tracking rogue premium-sms Android apps for sometime now. Here’s an interesting site we came across offering a download of the Google Music application, but this one comes with a cost. This site serves up a premium-sms Trojan of the ransom variety. Targeting Russian speakers these Rogue’s, we call Android.FakeInst, offer [...]

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An Evolution of Android Malware “When stealing data isn’t enough meet…GoManag …“ (Part 2)

February 29, 2012 – 5:36 pm

by Nathan Collier In our continued series of how Android malware authors continue adding functionality to their work we take a look at GoManag. First seen last year, targeting Chinese speakers, GoManag is a Trojan that installs as a service so it can run in the background, collects device information and downloads payloads.  Its odd [...]

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An Evolution of Android Malware “My How You’ve Grown PJAPPS!” (Part 1)

February 17, 2012 – 3:44 pm

By Nathan Collier We’ve all seen software grow.  We watch as our favorite software adds on new features and becomes better at what it does.  Malware writers are no different, they want their software to have more features as well as steal even more information. PJApps is a good example of this. PJApps is a [...]

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‘Tis the season for mobile malware

November 18, 2011 – 11:25 am

By Armando Orozco You’ve heard of the “perfect storm”? Well, there may be one brewing in Android-land. We just wrapped up a study that revealed holiday shopping is about to go mobile—in a big way. Turns out, over two times more shoppers plan to buy gifts on their mobile device this year. Over two times [...]

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I don’t think it means what you think it means…

November 4, 2011 – 3:07 pm

Websites Hosting Android Trojans   By Armando Orozco and  Nathan Collier Rogue Android apps are making their way into alternative markets. Yes, we’ve seen some malicious apps trickle through and they can be elusive. But we’re now seeing markets that are only hosting malware. These rogues are of the premium rate SMS variety and request [...]

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