Mobile threats

Malware descriptions

Tic Tac Toe with a twist

The developers of Gomal, a new mobile Trojan, not only achieved a new level of camouflage by adding Tic Tac Toe game to their malicious program, but also implemented interesting techniques which are new to this kind of malware.

Malware descriptions

Behind the ‘AndroidOS.Koler’ distribution network

AndroidOS.Koler.a a ransomware program that blocks the screen of an infected device and requests a ransom in order to unlock the device. An entire network of malicious porn sites linked to a traffic direction system that redirects the victim to different payloads targeting not only mobile devices but any other visitor.

Incidents

The first mobile encryptor Trojan

In the middle of May a unique encryption Trojan that works on Android went on sale on a virus writers’ forum. A few days later on May 18, we saw the appearance of a new mobile encryptor Trojan in the wild that we detect as Trojan-Ransom.AndroidOS.Pletor.a.

Research

Fake antivirus – attack of the clones

Experts recently discovered a scam antivirus app on Google Play going by the name of Virus Shield. It was followed by a series of other similar fake apps. Early last week, for instance, we detected two rather interesting fake antivirus programs.

Reports
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