Mobile threats

Software

Who Wants Ice Cream?

Google has recently announced the forthcoming availability of Ice Cream Sandwich, Android 4.0. In such a short time, Android has seemingly come so far. I’d like to stop and take a look at the security improvements and additions featured in this release.

Research

Are “Offerwalls” siphoning your personal information?

A relatively new development in app advertising has a concerning feature. It leeches much of the same information that many Android Trojans also steal. Through an app promotion campaign, a new feature called “offerwalls” are used by Pay Per Install (PPI) services to promise further adoption and revenue for app developers. But what is the real danger? It is found in the way these services uniquely identify users and the information they collect.

Opinion

Smart money?

The BBC today reported the announcement of the first UK ‘mobile wallet’, allowing people to pay for things using their mobile phone.

Incidents

A long time ago…

We read a blogpost about a fake security solution which fraudulently uses the Kaspersky Lab logo in order to better fool potential victims. We have detected this fake AV since August 6 2008, as not-a-virus:FraudTool.J2ME.KaspAV.a.

Reports
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