Google’s Play Store for Android apps has never had a reputation for the strictest protections from malware. Shady adware and even banking trojans have managed over the years to repeatedly defy Google’s security checks. Now security researchers have found what appears to be a more rare form of Android abuse: state-sponsored spies who repeatedly slipped their targeted hacking tools into the…
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Researchers Uncover New Version of the Infamous Flame Malware
In 2012 when researchers at the security firm Kaspersky Lab publicly exposed the massive and sophisticated suite of nation-state spy tools called Flame, the attackers behind it, seemingly in a panic, swiftly shut down their operation once they realized they’d been caught. They sent a kill module to disable and erase the malware on infected… Continue reading Researchers Uncover New Version of the Infamous Flame Malware
Researchers Uncover New Version of the Infamous Flame Malwaref
In 2012 when researchers at the security firm Kaspersky Lab publicly exposed the massive and sophisticated suite of nation-state spy tools called Flame, the attackers behind it, seemingly in a panic, swiftly shut down their operation once they realized they’d been caught. They sent a kill module to disable and erase the malware on infected… Continue reading Researchers Uncover New Version of the Infamous Flame Malwaref