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Malware hijacks mobile ad networks to siphon money Aug 18th 2013, 18:38, by , CSO Asian cybercriminals have figured out an unusual way to use the architecture of a mobile ad network to siphon money from their victims. The new method represents another step in the evolution of mobile malware, which is booming with more smartphones shipping than PCs. Mobile ad networks open up the perfect backdoor for downloading code. "It's a very, very clean infection vector," said Wade Williamson, a senior security analyst at Palo Alto Networks who discovered the new trickery. Follow the ads In legitimate partnerships between ad distributors and developers, the latter embeds the former's software development kit (SDK) into the app, so it can download and track ads in order to split revenue. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Media files: smartphone-malware-100045232-small.jpg

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