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A fake version of the popular Android game Minecraft - Pocket Edition is half the price of the real thing, but comes with a nasty surprise. 
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Kaspersky uncovers trojan spread by "spear-phish" to Tibet activists.
Malware used to spy on Tibetan activists and other ethnic groups in China is nothing new. But a new Trojan discovered by researchers at Kaspersky Labs has widened the scope of this digital espionage and intimidation. The malware uses a combination of e-mail hacking, "spear phishing," and a Trojan built specifically for Android smartphones. ===> Kaspersky claims this is the first discovery of a targeted attack that uses mobile phone malware. <===
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Malware used to spy on Tibetan activists and other ethnic groups in China is nothing new. But a new Trojan discovered by researchers at Kaspersky Labs has widened the scope of this digital espionage and intimidation. The malware uses a combination of e-mail hacking, "spear phishing," and a Trojan built specifically for Android smartphones.
===> Kaspersky claims this is the first discovery of a targeted attack that uses mobile phone malware. <===
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Summary: Cybercriminals have created a new variant of the OpFake malware for Android that comes bundled with a legitimate version of the Opera Mini mobile browser.
Read more: http://www.zdnet.com/warning-new-android-malware-tricks-users-with-real-opera-mini-7000001586/
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Downloading apps from Google Play, the official online Android app market, is not without its dangers.
Even though Google has been scanning the offered apps for malware by using "Bouncer" - an automated app scanning service that should, in theory, detect malicious software and developers who keep offering it - there are still instances where they aren't booted out of the market soon enough.
Security researchers from AegisLab have recently discovered over 15 fake AV and "free SMS" apps being offered by the same developer ("thasnimola") that has been flagged for selling fake NQ Mobile apps in April.
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Analysts with Lookout Mobile Security have found websites that have been hacked to deliver malicious software to devices running Android, an apparent new attack vector crafted for the mobile operating system.
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AVG: Android Malware Is Pushed via Twitter and Facebook...
“We detected a big increase in the use of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter to target Android users. Cyber criminals are finding it very convenient to distribute their malware straight to a mobile device via these networks,” said Yuval Ben-Itzhak, chief technology officer at AVG.
“The growth of the Android platform has been phenomenal, which has not gone unnoticed with cyber criminals who have discovered it to be a lucrative target for their malware. In 2011, Google had to remove over 100 malicious apps from the official Android market, Google Play.”
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Instagram, the popular free photo sharing app for iOS devices, is now available for download for Android users on Google Play and Instagram's website.
Unfortunately, a rogue malicious version of it is also being pushed onto Russian Android users, offered from a webpage that mimics the legitimate one:
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Recently we discovered a new Android Trojan in the official Google Play market that displays a video downloaded from the Internet–but only if some sensitive information is previously sent to a remote server.
The malicious applications are designed for Japanese users and display “trailers” of upcoming video games for Android.
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Anewer variant of LaNa malware can gain root access to Android devices by leveraging the GingerBreak exploit. Doing so removes the need for user interaction and opens the victim pool to anyone not patched against the vulnerability.
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If you think Android phones are immune from malware, listen up: you need to protect yourself. A recent exploit that stole personal data shows why.
There are a few anti-malware apps for Android, including Norton Antivirus & Security, and McAfee Mobile Security among others. Those can help, but they won’t catch everything.
To really be secure, you also have to pay attention to the permissions an app is looking for when you’re installing...if a game is looking for access to your contact list, think twice before accepting. But in some cases, even that isn’t enough, because this particular exploit didn’t even ask for permissions.
===> Ultimately, you should be trying to only get apps from trusted sources. <===
And you should always try to check around to be sure that an app is safe before installing it on an impulse. Just the same what you used to do (or should have done) on your PC.
The more things change…
Read more: http://www.itworldcanada.com/blogs/android/2012/04/02/android-malware-the-more-things-change/63570/#ixzz1qtiS0RTd
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The malicious Android application targets specific well-known financial entities posing as a Token Generator application.
Security researchers at McAfee have discovered a malicious Android application capable of grabbing banking passwords from a mobile device without infecting the user’s computer.
The latest piece of Android Malware, dubbed FakeToken, contains man-in-the-middle functionality to hijack two-factor authentication tokens and can be remotely controlled to grab the initial banking password directly from the infected mobile device.
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Experts from a cyber security firm, CrowdStrike, have reportedly discovered a flaw in a component of smartphones powered by Google's Android OS. Apparently, this flaw can allow hackers to gain control of these devices.
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Vendredi, deux hommes soupçonnés d'avoir abusé plus de 2000 possesseurs d'un smartphone Android ont été mis en exam...
Un butin estimé à 100000 €
Les autorités françaises estiment que le préjudice total s'élève à 100 000 euros, avec en moyenne 20 à 30 euros par personne.
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In late May we reported on the details of Backdoor.AndroidOS.Obad.a, the most sophisticated mobile Trojan to date. At the time we had almost no information about how this piece of malware gets onto mobile devices. Learn more: - http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Botnet - http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Mobile+Botnet
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Die Sicherheitsexperten von G-Data haben einen neuen Android-Schädling entdeckt, der selbstständig kostenpflichtige Apps herunterlädt.
G-Data empfiehlt zum Schutz von solchen und ähnlichen Schädlingen die Installation einer Sicherheitslösung auf dem mobilen Gerät. Außerdem sollte das Gerät und die darauf installierten Applikationen immer aktuell gehalten werden, um so auch vor bereits bekannten und geschlossenen Sicherheitslücken geschützt zu sein. Grundsätzlich sollten Apps nur aus vertrauenswürdigen Quellen heruntergeladen und installiert werden. Dazu zählen etwa Google Play und die Marktplätze der Hersteller.
In diesem Artikel finden Sie weitere Tipps, wie Sie ein Android-Gerät absichern können:
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Eine neue Variante des SpyEye-Trojaners stiehlt mTANs von Android-Smartphones. Doch der Schädling belässt es nicht dabei.
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Lookout Mobile Security has identified hacked websites targeting Android devices, an attack vector previously only used to infect PCs with malware.
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Lookout warnt vor dem erstern Drive-by-Download-Schädling für Android-Nutzer. „NotCompatible“ mogelt sich fast automatisch auf Ihr Smartphone.
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In an attempt to take advantage of the popularity of free photo-sharing app Instagram among smartphone users, malware writers have created fake Instagram...
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McAfee Warns Of Android Video Malware; 70K Users Affected
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Researchers at NQ Mobile, working alongside researchers at North Carolina State University, have discovered Android malware that is controlled via SMS that can do a number of things on the compromised device including recording calls and and surrounding noise.
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A new version of Android malware has been tweaked so it doesn’t require user interaction for an attacker to own the device, according to research published by Lookout Mobile Security yesterday.
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Ein neuer Trojaner treibt in der Android-Welt sein Unwesen: die Malware gibt sich als Token-Generator-App für das Online-Banking aus und erschleicht sich auf diese Weise die Anmeldedaten des Kontobesitzers und kann das Konto leer räumen.
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AV-TEST GmbH - ===> The Independent IT-Security Institute... <===
Over the past year, the popularity of the Android system has led to a huge increase in the distribution of Android malware (see fig. 1).
This malware is mainly distributed in markets operated by third parties, but even the Google Android Market cannot guarantee that all of its listed applications do not contain any threats.
===> Users should no longer blindly trust all apps. <===
A large range of protection programmes that can help to identify dangerous apps and remove them from a user's device are now available.
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13 Android-Apps mit dem Spionagemodul Counterclank sorgen unter Sicherheitsexperten für Zündstoff. COMPUTER BILD klärt auf.
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