Droid defense

Massive Android botnet invades China: Could India be the next target?

Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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A massive Trojan botnet has been discovered in Android devices in China and this serves as a timely reminder of the growing vulnerability of the Android platform. Staggeringly, this botnet has infected more than 1 million Android devices that function in China. The high vulnerability of Android devices in China can be put down to […]

Spam SMS messages on the rise: Quick Heal mobile threat detection numbers

Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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3 min read

In September 2012, Quick Heal launched an initiative for mobile users to forward suspicious SMS messages to a predesignated number. We received an impressive response as a lot of mobile users actively forwarded their spam messages and contributed towards this cause. The number to forward any suspicious SMS messages to is +91-86000-44733. Millions of SMS […]

The growing threat of mobile malware: Top Android malware families of 2012

Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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4 min read

The open-source nature of the Android platform is its biggest strength and Achilles heel at the same time. Android handsets constituted almost 72% of global smartphone sales in Q3 2012 and 1.3 million Android devices are activated worldwide every single day. This is a staggering market share that Android enjoys but this brings with it […]

Security news and updates from the last week

Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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2 min read

Major security flaw found in Samsung devices, Samsung working on solution Samsung manufactures the Exynos 4 quad-core and dual-core chips for its flagship products like Samsung Galaxy S3 and the Galaxy Note II. However, a security flaw has been discovered in these SoC (system on a chip) processors that makes the devices vulnerable to remote […]

Security news updates from the week gone by

Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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2 min read

Bangalore biggest target of cyber crimes in 2012 The cyber criminal cell at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has reported that out of all Indian cities, Bangalore faced the most number of cyber crimes in 2012. Close to 400 reported incidents have been witnessed till the end of November in the state of Karnataka. Udupi […]

Security news updates from the last week

Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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2 min read

This week was a rather busy one in the security industry. Here are some of the notable highlights that you should not miss out on. Authorized email monitoring increases by 36% in September 2012 According to reports, email monitoring by national security agencies has jumped by 36% in September 2012. However, this does not imply […]

How smartphone attacks make money at the expense of the victim?

Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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5 min read

The massive surge in smartphone usage all over the world has allowed scammers to devise several ways to monetize vulnerable devices. For the victim these attack vectors represent a loss of data, time and money. But for the attacker these methods are primarily used to gain monetary benefits. So how exactly do these attackers make […]

Security news updates from the last week

Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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2 min read

Android apps are still not completely secure, say German researchers German researchers have found that heavily encrypted Android apps are also susceptible to losing crucial data about their users. They tested several free apps from Google Play and found that they could successfully carry out man-in-the-middle attacks against most of these. They were also able […]

Latest security updates from the last week

Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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2 min read

Government plans for 5 lakh cyber warriors for e-defense Having recognized the need for defense against extensive cyber attacks, the Indian Government has started an initiative to train 5 lakh ‘cyber warriors’ over the next 5 years. The training will include a centralized institute and access to extensive resources to achieve the same. Flaw in […]

The FBI’s IC3 releases a public warning about the growing threat of mobile malware

Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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3 min read

It is a known fact that malware threats over smartphones, especially on Android, are on the rise and have reached a large number of victims all around the world. To highlight this threat, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) issued a warning about the growing hazards of mobile malware and has also provided some crucial […]