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No MaaS
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Malware-as-a-service picks Android apart
Quite possibly the most expensive and capable Android malware the world has yet seen is for sale at $US5000 on underground markets, replete with software-as-a-service support. The iBanking malware has evolved from a simple SMS-stealer to a highly capable application that records audio within the range of a device's microphone …
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Thursday 22nd May 2014 03:39 GMT jake
@phil dude (as: Re: No MaaS)
Probably a play on "no mas", Spanish for "no more".
Not certain on the point being made by the OP.
The bottom line on this so-called "malware" is that it is socially engineered[1] user-installed code, and not really a bug in the Fandroid platform.
[1] For small values of social engineering, of course.
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Thursday 22nd May 2014 07:58 GMT Kristian Walsh
Re: All those steps required?
Make a "warez" app-store, that has this app bundled into every download, then publicise it on message boards.
People will disable every kind of security measure if you convince them that those checks are only put there by "The Man" to stop them getting stuff for free...
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Thursday 22nd May 2014 09:07 GMT RyokuMas
Re: All those steps required?
Well, considering the 90+ percent piracy rate on Android, even for games and apps that cost a dollar or less, it strikes me that most Android users are willing to jump through hoops and muck about with lots of things in order to
cheat the developer out of their earningsget free stuff. And with the majority of smartphone users being from a non-tech background, I'd imagine it's relatively easy to manipulate someone into making their phone insecure: "Get [Game X] for FREE! Follow these simple instructions!" sort of thing...-
Thursday 22nd May 2014 14:41 GMT thesykes
Re: All those steps required?
"considering the 90+ percent piracy rate on Android"
perhaps you should read the article to which you link, there's a sentence in there you should understand.. "the statistics are from one game developer's experience, and shouldn't be extrapolated across the entire Android app industry"
In my sample of 1 Android phone, there is 0% piracy. I'm not stupid enough to use a sample of one and claim it as representative of the entire Android world, you would do well to apply similar logic.
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Thursday 22nd May 2014 15:39 GMT Oninoshiko
Re: All those steps required?
In my sample of 1 Android phone, there is 0% piracy. I'm not stupid enough to use a sample of one and claim it as representative of the entire Android world, you would do well to apply similar logic.
If we take our phones together, we'll have 50% of phones are rooted, and still 0% of phones have pirated software!
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Thursday 22nd May 2014 12:20 GMT Fuh Quit
Re: All those steps required?
XP still has around 500 million users. I would expect a good proportion of those would likely fall victim to something like this.
If anyone remembers the joke .exe many years ago which would throw up a dialog box telling you to "Click OK to Continue" - and said box would dart around the screen avoiding your mouse pointer. That for me sums up many people using technology.
Paris - because I'm sure she'd do the same if I tried to *click* on her :D
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Thursday 22nd May 2014 15:26 GMT Crazy Operations Guy
Re: Alternatively...
I already use an non-android device, and yet there are still security vulnerabilities and malware.
Every platform sucks for one reason or another. With Apple you are pretty much just renting it from them; Android is highly variable between manufacturers and TelCos; Windows Phone means that if I want to have work e-mail on my phone, the phone is now pretty much property of my company; and Blackberry might not be around tomorrow. And all of these platform have security vulnerabilities, Android is just prevalent so it gets reported more often.
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