This is not what you are thinking. It is not a malware scanner on your Apple iPhone and it is for a very specific malware infection. What it is a multi-platform scanner produced by, the Russian security company, Kaspersky to detect if an iOS device has been infected with ‘Triangulation’ …
Let’s finish the week where we started it – Android Malware
Here is a deep dive on the operation of the Predator Android malware by Bill Toulas of Bleeping Computer from research by Cisco Talos and the Citizen Lab. Predator: Looking under the hood of Intellexa’s Android spyware (bleepingcomputer.com) Predator is commercially available malware – only sold to governments or authorised …
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BrutePrint. I wrote about the Android risk last week…
…and I am going to start the week off with the Android risk! BrutePrint! This is only research at the moment but what starts off in the lab can migrate to the wild once threat actors know what to look for! A new brute force attack on Android fingerprint biometric …
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The Android Risk
There are many posts on Smart Thinking highlighting malicious Android apps and I am constantly reminding you that if you have Android devices in your bring-your-own-device (BYOD) scheme then you need to take positive steps to manage them. Even if they are not your devices, they will have your information …
Android malware is big business
Android malware is a repeating news item here – and the way the Google Play Store operates is part of the problem but not the whole story. Another part of the reason is that unlike Apple and iOS, Google exerts far less control over the Android operating system and third …
