The new landscape of pre-installed mobile malware: malicious code within

Credit to Author: Nathan| Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2019 18:15:46 +0000

We are now seeing malware authors target system apps that are required for mobile devices to function properly. By injecting malicious code within these necessary apps, threat actors have reshaped the landscape of pre-installed malware for the worse.

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Mobile Menace Monday: Preinstalled adware and sometimes worse

Credit to Author: Nathan Collier| Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:00:52 +0000

BLU manufactured mobile devices have been discovered with preinstalled adware known as Android/Adware.YeMobi.

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