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Fake anti-virus disguises used by Android malware

The Android malware threat is growing, says Graham Cluley. Similar social engineering tricks have worked on other operating systems in the past also being used on the Android platform. Criminals are increasingly targeting Android devices, so we are seeing more attacks created and distributed which target Android devices. For example, criminals spammed out links via Twitter pointing to webpages that contained a rogue app posing as a legitimate virus scanner. When visited, the webpages determine whether it would be more appropriate to serve up a Java ME.jar file (for phones which are”]

Source: https://grahamcluley.com/fake-anti-virus-disguises-used-by-android-malware/

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