- DroidDreamLight Variant Pretends to Manage APK Files
We recently found a new variant of DroidDreamLight in the Android Market. The app promotes itself as an app that helps users manage the .APK files on their device. The sample was downloaded 50–100 times before it was removed from the Android Market. The malware sample we found, which we now detect as ANDROIDOS_DORDRAE.M, was [...]
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- Mobile Phone Monitoring Service Found
Trend Micro uncovered how cybercriminals may profit from NICKISPY variants. A Chinese website offers mobile phone monitoring tools and services to customers who are given access to the site’s backend to retrieve information. However, such services are not cheap and can cost from US$300–540. We’ve been reporting about several NICKISPY variants—Android malware that can monitor [...]
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- Free ‘Breaking Dawn Part 2′ Tickets Scam Spreads in Facebook
The latest Facebook scam leverages Breaking Dawn Part 2 and leads to survey pages that steal personal data such as cell phone numbers and email addresses. Who wants free tickets to The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2? To most, specifically to cybercriminals, the real question is, “Who wouldn’t?” We have encountered several incidents of clickjacking on [...]
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Free ‘Breaking Dawn Part 2′ Tickets Scam Spreads in Facebook
- Blackhat 2011: Dangers of Embedded Web Servers
Most devices like printers, scanners, and VoIP systems nowadays have embedded Web servers for easy administration. Unfortunately, many of these devices are mostly unprotected due to lapses in configuration. Some servers are not properly configured and can be accessed using the default user name and password or are left with no means of protection. What’s [...]
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- KOOBFACE Propagates via Torrent P2P File Sharing
The KOOBFACE botnet became known for using popular social networking sites as a propagation vector and abusing these platforms for malicious purposes. We recently observed that KOOBFACE no longer actively propagates via social networks but rather does so via a torrent P2P network through sharing Trojanized application files. While conducting research, we found a “loader” [...]
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- Premium Abusers Also Check for Keywords
A new threat wants to subscribe your device to premium services. A few months back, we reported about an Android malware targeting China Mobile subscribers by abusing premium services, and more recently, one that monitors for certain keywords in text messages. What’s the connection between these two? Well, we were able to analyze an Android malware [...]
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