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GinMaster, unwanted Android apps and legit apps gone bad

Rowland Yu of SophosLabs Australia presented GinMaster : a case study in Android malware GinMaster is so named because of its use of the GingerBreak jailbreaking exploit to gain root privileges on compromised Android devices. Gabor Szappanos presented Hide and Seek how targeted attacks hide behind clean applications The Android landscape is catching up to the sophistication of Windows malware, a very frightening revelation, he says. He also presented a paper attempting to create a set of common criteria for detecting and determining the differences between malware and things that arent malicious, but are clearly undesirable.”]

Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/10/04/ginmaster-unwanted-android-apps-and-legit-apps-gone-bad/

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