Scientists reveal new malware detection method

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Hope this method of a new technology could help a better security for the future mobile devices.

Scientists from NQ Mobile's Mobile Security Research Center, in collaboration with North Carolina State University disclosed a new way to detect mobile threats without relying on known malware samples and their signatures.

http://www.net-security.org/malware_...et+Security%29

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The information in that article is a bit light on details - and like other sites that mention this, has just been taken directly from the official press release.

http://ir.nq.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=243...cle&id=1709741

In a trial run earlier this year RiskRanker scanned over one hundred thousand apps from a variety of marketplaces that provide Android applications and identified 718 malware threats, including 322 zero-day threats.

Interesting. We have to assume that these were checked by hand to be true positive, but presumably there's no way of knowing how many false negatives. All we can take from it is that it caught 718 more malware items than the scanners & checks those marketplaces employed, and that the method apparently can identify zero-day threats (which is good).

Would be interesting to know if some marketplaces featured more prominently - for example, how much better is it than 'Bouncer'. It would also be interesting to hear more of this "two-step detection method".

NQ offer a free security app for Android - for anyone curious ("NQ Mobile Security").