Fake Antivirus Scams Targeting Android Users

MrBrian · Dec 29, 2011

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/fake-antivirus-scams-targeting-android-users-122911

siljaline · Dec 31, 2011

Of note on Android based Mobile OS -
From H-Online

According to a report from security specialist Symantec, hacktivists are spreading a manipulated version of a popular Islamic compass app for Android called AlSalah that secretly sends text messages with links to political messages. To do this, the app installs a service that sends a randomly selected link to one of 18 forum posts to all contacts in the infected mobile phone's address book. The content is the same in all of the posts: a tribute to Mohamed Bouazizi, the street vendor who became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution when he set himself on fire last year.
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Android trojan hides behind QR code

A QR code has been found on a web site which directs users to Android malware. Kaspersky's SecureList blog has a report of a malicious QR code on a web site which when scanned directs the user to a URL; the linked site doesn't have a file matching the name in the URL, but it does redirect the browser to another site where the file jimm.apk is downloaded. The file is a trojanised version of the Jimm mobile ICQ Client infected with Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.Jifake.f which sends a number of SMS messages to a $6 a message premium rate service.
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