Our support team continues to receive more and more requests from users complaining about intrusive ads on their smartphones from unknown sources. Read Full Article
Data collectors
As we saw from the statistics, tech giants that collect and analyze data to show us targeted advertising are present practically everywhere in the world. And it is these companies that store the most data about people from all over the planet. Read Full Article
Pirate matryoshka
Cybercriminals are always coming up with new kinds of fraud. In this particular case, they employed a method for delivering malicious content through torrent trackers to install adware on user computers. Read Full Article
How do file partner programs work?
It’s easy to notice if you’ve fallen victim to an advertising partner program: the system has new apps that you didn’t install, ad pages spontaneously open in the browser, ads appear on sites where they never used to, and so on. If you notice these symptoms on your computer, 99% of the time it’s “partner stuff”. Read Full Article
Ztorg: money for infecting your smartphone
This research started when we discovered an infected Pokémon GO guide in Google Play. We detected the malware as Trojan.AndroidOS.Ztorg.ad. After some searching, I found some other similar infected apps that were being distributed from the Google Play Store. Read Full Article
Disassembling a Mobile Trojan Attack
We intercepted traffic coming from the attacked device when this sort of “advert” was displayed, and figured out how the malicious program Svpeng was downloaded and automatically saved. Read Full Article
Good morning Android!
We encountered a gratuitous act of violence against Android users. By simply viewing their favorite news sites over their morning coffee users can end up downloading last-browser-update.apk, a banking Trojan detected by Kaspersky Lab solutions as Trojan-Banker.AndroidOS.Svpeng.q. Read Full Article
Malware in the Amazon App Store
Like many others, I took advantage of Amazon.com’s sale and ordered a Kindle Fire HD last week. When I got around to exploring the Amazon App Store, it didn’t take long before running into malware. Read Full Article
Vidro: How deep and mobile is the rabbit hole?
A new family of SMS Trojans named Vidro appeared a few days ago but we’ve already collected a lot of APK files with very similar functionality. At the moment all the samples we have found target users only from Poland. Read Full Article
A unique ‘bodiless’ bot attacks news site visitors
In early March, we received a report from an independent researcher on mass infections of computers on a corporate network after users had visited a number of well-known Russian online information resources Read Full Article