Mobile threats

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.

Video

Forecasts for 2014 – Expert Opinion

In 2014 we expect significant growth in the number of threats related to economic and domestic cyber-espionage, with cyber-mercenaries/cyber-detectives playing an active role in such attacks. The full report is available here

Reports
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