More Android malware?
Oh I am surprised,
While most of the world is treating the once-mighty BlackBerry as an also-ran in the smartphone market, malware authors still think it’s worth a crack – and have crafted a package designed to drop a Zeus malware variant on the device. This post to Securelist by Kaspersky’s Denis Maslennikov details five new Zeus-in-the-mobile …
>>If the attack is successfully installed, it’s designed to redirect financial verification
So how do you install it on Android? (Not sure about the blackberry either). We heard about ZeuS that infects both with drive-by-download and voluntary installation by the user. Which of the cases are we talking about here? (Any links pointing to Android apps to "drop that back door"?)
The latter it is. The difference is that you can see the permissions of the bad app and get the idea about its true nature.
BTW, the linked Maslennikov's blog is just some theoretic self-references talk.
> malware authors .. have crafted a package designed to drop a Zeus malware variant on the device ..
How exactly does the malware drop onto the device, without visiting a malicious website, downloading and running an app and giving it the admin password?