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Android, Bitcoin top malware targets, McAfee reports Nov 23rd 2013, 15:45, by Nermin Bajric, Australian Reseller News Security vendor McAfee's research arm, McAfee Labs, has identified growth across four threat trends in the third installment of its quarterly reports for 2013, including Android-based malware, signed malware, spam, and virtual currencies. Android vulnerable Almost 700,000 new malware samples aimed at the Android platform were cataloged in the third quarter of the year, accounting for an increase of more than 30 percent. McAfee Labs claims this is driven at least partially by a new category of Android malware, titled Exploit/MasterKey.A, which allows attackers to bypass the digital signature validation of applications, a key component of the Android security process. Researchers have also found a new class of Android malware that, once installed, downloads a second-stage payload without the user's knowledge. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Media files: stopmalware_1160-100043315-small.png

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