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A couple of malicious apps distributed on Google play store with rooting Trojan Ztorg and it also has Trojan-SMS functionality. Trojan-SMS can send Premium rate SMS and destroy incoming SMS. There is no surprise now to see a malicious app in Google play store, recently we heard about Xavier and Judy which infects Millions of users. Kaspersky Lab products […]
New Android Trojan Ad Library Called “Zavier” Infected more Than 800 Android Apps which is Estimated around more than million downloads in Google Play and distributed over a large number of people around the Globe. Zavier Malwre Detected as “ANDROIDOS_XAVIER.AXM” that silently infect and steal the users information and leak the personal information. This Malicious […]
Trojan Dvmap distributed through the Google Play Store, uses various exceptionally dangerous methods, including patching system libraries. It installs malicious modules with different functionality into the system. Dvmap observed by security experts from Kaspersky Labs in April 2017. To bypass the Google Malware scanner they use to upload a clean Version of the app to store first […]
A New Android Malware Called “Judy” found in google play store infected 41 Apps which all are created by a Korean company. This “Judy” Malware is an auto-clicking adware which leads to forcing the users to Click the ads. This Malware performing plenty of fraudulent clicks on advertisements Generated by infected applications for increasing the […]
The Russian interior Ministry introduced on Monday the arrest of 20 people from a prime cyber criminal gang that had stolen nearly $900,000 from bank debts after infecting over 1,000,000 Android smartphones with a mobile android malware referred to as “CronBot.” Russian interior Ministry representative Rina Wolf said the arrests were part of a joint […]
[jpshare]A new Android vulnerability discovered in Android’s security Mechanism which leads to several android permission based attacks during run-time including ransomware, banking malware and adware. According to the Google Policy gives extensive permissions to apps installed directly from Google Play,this flow consists of several groups of permissions, with permissions considered as “dangerous” granted only during run-time […]
A new form of Android malware, named Milkydoor, uses remote port forwarding via Secure Shell (SSH) tunnels to hide malicious traffic and grant attackers access to firewall-protected networks. The malware was recently found in over 200 Android applications available through the Play Store. Security researchers from Trend Micro, the ones who discovered MilkyDoor, say they […]
Android clients were the goal of another banking malware with screen locking abilities, taking on the appearance of a flashlight application on Google Play. Dissimilar to other banking trojans with a static arrangement of targeted banking applications, this trojan can progressively change its usefulness. The trojan, detected by ESET as Trojan.Android/Charger.B, was added to Google […]
[jpshare]Security researcher Niels Croese found much new banking malware on Google Play, which has numerous new banking application focuses in its configurations. Taking a look at the names of the exercises and other manifest items it appeared like an ordinary application with embedded malware. Apparently, the app was updated recently (April 8, 2017) and this was most likely […]
Own a modern-day Android phone? Do not expect it to be an easy slate. As a minimum 36 high-end smartphone fashions belonging to popular manufacturing companies consisting of Samsung, LG, Xiaomi, Asus, Nexus, Oppo, and Lenovo, which might be being distributed by using unidentified businesses were found pre-loaded with android malware app programs. Those malware […]
Mobile Threat prevention Team from Checkpoint Software Discovered Pre-Installed malware in more than 30 android smartphone models belonging to popular Mobile companies such as Samsung , Lenovo , Nexus,Xiaomi ,Asus , LG, Oppo,Vivo . This malware is not an usual malware as download to the devices and attacker behind of the infection . This has been […]
Social engineering employed to distribute ViperRAT malware which uses infected devices to take photos and record audio. Hackers are carrying out surveillance on members of the Israeli military by hacking into their Android phones in order to monitor activity and steal data – potentially including photos and audio recordings – according to security companies. Developed […]
A new Android malicious app imitating Adobe Flash Player that serves as a potential entrance for many types of dangerous malware. According To the ESET security software which detected the “mimics” Malware ” Android/TrojanDownloader.Agent.JI ” And tricks its victims into granting it special permissions in the Android accessibility menu and uses these to download and execute additional […]
Short Bytes: A dangerous Android malware named Trojan.AndroidOS.Switcher has been discovered by the security researchers at Kaspersky Lab. The malware, disguised as two different mobile apps, tries to brute force the password of Wi-Fi routers and control the entire network. Surprisingly, the malicious settings even manage to survive a router reboot. Researchers have shared few rogue DNS servers […]
Any other day, some other creepy malware for Android users! Security Researchers have uncovered a brand new Android malware concentrated on your devices, however this time in place of attacking the device at once. The malware takes manage over the WiFi router to which your tool is hooked up to after which hijacks the net […]
Short Bytes: A new Android malware, named Gooligan, is here to compromise your Google accounts. It steals the account authorization keys and installs malicious adware on devices. With a 1 million infected devices, Gooligan continues to infect 13,000 new devices each day. Check Point has released an online tool to check if your Google account has […]
If the malware found any German financial apps installed in the device, it would show a fake page asking for credentials of that particular institution. Unaware that the login page is a fake, the victim would provide their credentials where they would then be sent to the malware’s C&C. The malware would also show a […]
Android banking and ad-fraud Trojans leverage ideas found in GitHub-hosted open source projects and use the UsageStats API to bypass Android 5.0 and 6.0 security enhancements. As we have discussed in our previous blogs, the ability to determine what app is currently running in the foreground is central for mobile banking malware to create overlay […]
Android malware is not unusual; we’ve even seen it pop up in Google’s Marketplace app on several occasions. Increasing in both sophistication and stealthiest, Android malware has mostly been a nuisance on third-party marketplaces, such as in China, where it continues to thrive. Why third party marketplaces? As Google’s Bouncer does a pretty good job […]
The Check Point research team uncovered a new Android malware campaign on Google Play it calls Viking Horde. Viking Horde conducts ad fraud, but can also be used for other attack purposes such as DDoS attacks, spam messages, and more. At least five instances of Viking Horde managed to bypass Google Play malware scans so […]
IBM X-Force threat intelligence has found that the source code for Android malware GM Bot was leaked on an underground board in December 2015. The leaked code for the malware and its control panel have since been further propagated to different users, making this popular Android Trojan accessible to fraudsters for free, with a tutorial […]