It is a common technique for criminals to target gaming applications as a propagation vector for malware distribution. Recently, I observed just such a malicious Android app, which acted as an interesting information stealer and then self-destructed. I took this case to investigate further as an interesting research.
Introduction Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are growing as a serious concern as they represent a threat to an organization’s intellectual property, financial assets and reputation. […]
In an earlier blog post I had published the summary of our findings of a malware analysis done, which had a number of common points […]
In early 2012, a client contacted us with suspicious-looking emails that he had received. There were two emails received by the client. While we completed […]
Many times we receive SMS’s on our cell phones displaying messages like the one shown below: Typically a phone number to call or a website […]
For my research, I chose to analyze a popular Android application for malwares. But why select a Russian version? Well, it made a compelling case […]
Some days back I was greeted by a Google Safe browsing warning when I tried visiting a ‘known’ site. As I was sure it was […]
