Popular Virus Shield App apparent scam

Security conscious Android users were disappointed this week when it emerged that their Virus Shield anti-virus app was nothing more than a simple image on the screen of their mobile phone or device.
According maker Deviant Solutions Virus Shield prevents malicious apps end up on the mobile device of the user. In addition, the apps, settings, files, and media in real time would scan the app and would protect the private information of the owner. All this, with minimal impact on battery and without showing ads.

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The app received a whopping 4.7 stars in the official Google Play Store, cost $ 3.99 and was within a week of the best-selling paid app in the Store.

Scam
Unfortunately, the promise proved too good to be true. When the Android Police glanced at the source code, it was found that the only functionality of the app consisted of a picture of a shield with a cross and a shield with a check mark where the user could switch by tapping on the screen. between This would produce the so-called security should be off. Or in Deviant Solutions, however, proved "failed" to have an effective anti-virus application after the on-off button to hang up.
Virus Shield has been removed from the Google Play Store.

Spyware provider sells smartphones with spyware

A provider of a spyware program for smartphones nowadays also offers aircraft where the spyware already installed in advance. mSpy, the company name, defines its own software as a "powerful monitoring solution" that all activities of the user to follow.

Thus, it is possible to listen in on phone calls to block calls them to read, chat conversations view, browsing history to lock the device, calendar, and view, store, read emails and photos and videos to view keystrokes address book . Spyware which '100% undetectable "would be had to still first be installed. Device

For the cases where this is not possible or too much work, in the shop of mSpy now advance infected devices available.It is a 5 Nexus, Apple iPhone 5S, HTC One and Galaxy S4, including annual subscription to the spyware. According mSpy is to use the spyware is legal, as long as the target in advance is informed and gives consent.

In a Forbes Article highlighting the software, the company founder Andrei Shimanovich, addressing that issue, is quoted as saying:

It is the same question with the gun producer. If you go out and buy a gun and go shoot someone, no one will go after the gun producer. People who shoot someone will be responsible for this. Same thing for mSpy. We just provide the services which can solve certain tasks regarding parents and teenagers.

McAfee: POS malware can be ordered online threats jumped 197% issued report

Sellers offer BlackPOS (“Dump, CC Memory Grabber”) for purchase online.

Online marketplaces for stolen credit card numbers are thriving.

McAfee report released 2013 Q4 mobile platform malware threats jumped 197%

2013 fourth quarter, Target and other well-known retailers, consumer credit card information was leaked events, and McAfee's 2013 Q4 report that the malware used by attackers, is derived from 'cyber crime as a Service' ( Cybercrime-as-a-Service) communities.

In addition, McAfee also updated the malware data mobile platform - the company's called "Malware Zoo". Compared to last year, the situation did not diminish - soared 197%.

As ever (probably) the largest credit card information leak case together, despite its place in the point of sale POS system, but the company for the conclusion of the event, but it paints a depressing picture.

Vincent Weafer (McAfee Labs), senior vice president of McAfee Labs wrote: "What is more worrying is that the malicious software industry is how their customer service."

After buying a ready-made version of the POS network malware (Target's case, this stock is called BlackPOS), hackers also specifically modified it for their own use.

The McAfee After working with different organizations to extract and identify different data (domain name and user accounts, etc.), and returns the data to the hacker's code (as shown below).

The Target malware included hardcoded scripts to steal domain names, user accounts, and other data

Vincent Weafer added: "They even had a ready-made, highly efficient black market to sell stolen credit card information, and even includes an anonymous virtual currency payment system based POS raw materials, manufacturing, marketing, trading support - nothing is there. "

McAfee expects these stolen credit card data (reported 40 million), in Lampeduza Republic and other black market price, between one million to four million U.S. dollars.

McAfee's report, there are many noteworthy:

For example, malicious binary signature rise. McAfee said the distribution of content on the network, the "ambiguous" (dubious) more and more. CA certificate malware abuse cases are also quite common.

2013 fourth quarter, the company found that the more than 2.3 million malicious binaries signed, an increase of 52% over the third quarter. The amount of 2013 year was 5.7 million, which is already three times in 2012 and more.

McAfee wrote: "This threat is not only the proliferation of faster, are becoming increasingly complex."

As for the mobile platform, the number of malicious software also continues to climb. Total 2013 collected has reached 2.47 million, of which there are 744000 in the fourth quarter - an increase of 197 percent from a year ago.

McAfee did not pick out a platform, but given Android is already the world's most popular smartphone platform, these words are clearly not self evident.

McAfee noted that malware mobile platform, its mode of transmission and computer platforms roughly the same - be infected through the application, or web browsing. 2013, when the company tracked 200 new malware samples per minute.

Distribution, North America still "tops the list." Although the "hacker hotbed" "is on the rise in other countries and regions," but suspicious content and spam links to the United States is still "excellent."

Overall, the browser is still the most common malicious hacker attacks approaches.

This script sent credit card data to the Target attackers.

MtGox2014 Zip Contains One Malware: TibanneBackOffice.exe
MD5:c4e99fdcd40bee6eb6ce85167969348d
Virus Total Link
Detail from McAfee Report is available: Here