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We often have requests on mobile malware statistics and although statistics are only an imperfect representation of reality, this is what we can share. Those statistics only concern malware which run on mobile phones (hybrid malware which run on a PC...

Last week we attended Insomni'Hack 2011, where our Crypto Girl (Axelle Apvrille) presented on mobile phone threats. Debriefing of the conference may be found here and there. Both blog authors highlighted the main goal of Axelle's talk, which was...

Android devices continue to be the target of malware authors with Android/Fake10086.A!tr. AegisLab spotted this malicious Trojan in the wild in China and posted an interesting write-up on the matter. In brief, Android/Fake10086.A!tr looks like a han...

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Creeper, the world's first computer virus. From Creeper to Stuxnet, the last four decades saw the number of malware instances boom from 1,300 in 1990, to 50,000 in 2000, to over 200 million in 2010. Besides she...

Today starts CanSecWest 2011, in Vancouver, BC. The famous conference - which hosts the equally famous Pwn2Own contest - gathers some of the top security researchers in the World, addressing topics such as exploitation techniques (eg: the presentat...

We are pretty busy these days with malicious samples on Android. You probably haven't missed DroidDream (Android/DrdDream.A!tr) which trojaned several applications on the Android Market and several blog posts on the matter: Lookout explains how the...

Is Symbian still the leader for smartphone operating systems or not? How far have Android and iPhones penetrated the market? Who's the leader for smartphone OS: Symbian? BlackBerry? Android? iPhone? A quick search on Internet provides quite opposite...