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Android leads the way in mobile malware
(Credit: Juniper Networks) Android tops the charts in mobile malware, largely due to the failure of Google’s Android Market to properly review apps before they jump into the marketplace, says a new report from Juniper Networks. Detailing its findings in a blog posted yesterday, Juniper found that Android malware has…
How to Remove Malware From Your Windows PC
Is your computer running slower than usual? Are you getting lots of pop-ups? Have you seen other weird problems crop up? If so, your PC might be infected with a virus, spyware, or other malware–even if you have an antivirus program installed on it. Though other problems, such as hardware…
Most free security apps do not guard against Android malware
If you’ve been using a free Android anti-malware app to protect your phone against malicious software, take note. According to tests conducted by AV-Test, which bills itself as an independent IT security and anti-virus research specialist, the most popular free anti-malware apps on the Android Market do not offer reliable…
F-Secure spots malware signed with real code certificate
Researchers from security vendor F-Secure have spotted a rare malicious software sample that carried a valid secure code signing certificate from a Malaysian governmental institution. A code signing certificate is a kind of digital signature that ensures the authenticity and integrity of an application to be run on a computer….
Researchers spot malware using a stolen government certificate
Researchers from F-Secure have spotted a digitally signed malware using a stolen government certificate belonging to the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute. From F-Secure’s post: Every now and then we run into malware that has been signed with a code signing certificate. This is problematic, as an unsigned Windows…
Surging Malware Infects Android Phones
November 15, 2011, 2:51 AM EST By Sarah Frier Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) — In the era of the personal computer, Apple Inc.’s machines were often less vulnerable to security threats than the alternatives. That may also be the case with the rise of smartphones. Google Inc.’s Android operating system for…
Encrypted malware stumps antivirus suites
Malware writers are taking their cat-and-mouse game with antivirus software makers up another level, using block ciphers that can even get the malware white-listed. Kaspersky Labs said evidence of the block ciphers are starting to appear in banking Trojan programs in Brazil, making it hard for antivirus products to detect,…
F-Secure finds digitally signed malware
This screenshot shows details of the certificate that was stolen and used to trick computers into trusting malware. (Credit: F-Secure) Researchers at F-Secure have uncovered a rarity–malware that is signed with a valid code-signing certificate stolen from a government. The malware uses a certificate for mardi.gov.my, which is the Agricultural…
What Mobile Malware Looks Like
Last month at the Virus Bulletin Conference in Barcelona, I took in one of the sessions on mobile malware. This type of malware is foreign to me because I mostly stay in the email space at work (and even then, I am focusing more on day-to-day issues of running a…