Android malware

Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2018
CSE CybSec ZLAB Malware Analysis Report: Dark Caracal and the Pallas malware family

Researchers from CSE ZLAB malware Analysis Laboratory analyzed a set of samples of the Pallas malware family used by the Dark Caracal APT in its hacking operations. The malware researchers from ZLab analyzed a collection of samples related to a new APT tracked as Dark Caracal, which was discovered by Electronic Frontier Foundation in collaboration […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 19, 2018
Dark Caracal APT – Lebanese intelligence is spying on targets for years

A new long-running player emerged in the cyber arena, it is the Dark Caracal APT, a hacking crew associated with to the Lebanese General Directorate of General Security that already conducted many stealth hacking campaigns. Cyber spies belonging to Lebanese General Directorate of General Security are behind a number of stealth hacking campaigns that in […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 24, 2017
SLocker decompiled code leaked online for free, a gift for crooks and hackers

The SLocker code leaked online, it is one of the oldest mobile lock screen and file-encrypting ransomware. The code of the SLocker Android malware, one of the most popular Android ransomware families, has been leaked online for free, allowing crooks to develop their own variant of the threat. SLocker was first spotted in 2015, it is the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2017
Wikileaks: CIA HighRise Android malware used to intercept and redirect SMSs

Wikileaks released the documentation for HighRise, an Android app used by the CIA to intercept and redirecting SMS messages to a CIA-controlled server. WikiLeaks just published a new batch of documents related to another CIA hacking tool dubbed HighRise included in the Vault 7 released in partnership with media partners. The tool is an Android application […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 07, 2017
CopyCat Android malware infected 14 Million devices and rooted 8 Million

Researchers at Check Point spotted a new family of Android malware dubbed CopyCat that infected 14 million devices and rooted 8 million of them. Researchers at Check Point’s Mobile Research Team have spotted a new family of Android malware that infected 14 million devices and rooted 8 million of them. According to the expert, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 31, 2017
Judy Doesn’t Love You – Judy Malware has a sweet name but may have infected 36 million users

Experts found a new malware, dubbed Judy malware, in the Play Store, it is designed to infect Android devices and generate false clicks on advertisements. Google is suffering once again from malicious software applications found inside popular apps available on Play store. The new malware – code named “Judy” – is designed to infect Android […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 23, 2016
Godless, the Android Malware that employs multiple rooting exploits

Godless is a new strain of Android Malware recently spotted by experts from Trend Micro that leverages multiple rooting exploits. Godless is a new strain of malware that uses multiple rooting exploit to compromise Android mobile devices. The mobile malware is a sort of hacking platform that includes an open-source rooting framework called android-rooting-tools. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2015
GDATA on Android malware. 4,900 new strains discovered every day

Every 18 seconds a new mobile Android malware is discovered in the wild as reported in the G DATA Malware Report Mobile for Q1 2015. Security firm GDATA has published a report on mobile malware detected in the first quarter of 2015. The researchers discovered 440,267 new strains of Android malware, a new malware strain for […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2014
FakeInst – Kaspersky discovered the first active Android SMS trojan

Kaspersky Lab has recently detected FakeInst, the first active SMS trojan for Android which targeted users in 66 countries, including the US. Security experts at Kaspersky Lab have recently detected the first active SMS trojan for Android, which send short messages to premium-rate numbers in 14 countries around the world. The malware, dubbed ‘Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakeInst.ef‘ (aka FakeInst) mainly infected mobile […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 04, 2014
Android Oldboot B, the most dangerous and complex bootkit of ever

Chinese researchers from “360 Mobile Security” detected Android Oldboot.B malware, until today the most complex bootkit which infected millions of devices. A new sophisticated Android Bootkit has been detected by Chinese Security Researchers from “360 Mobile Security“, its name is Oldboot.B and appears as an evolution of its predecessor Oldboot.A. According the researchers Oldboot.B could be considerable as […]