The ever-changing threat landscape has witnessed its first Trojan for the Android platform. On the 5th of this August, we received a Trojan that claimed to be a movie “codec” for Android devices. The fellow researchers at Kaspersky Lab discovered this threat in the wild.

The binary file is in Dalvik Executable format (.dex). Dalvik is the virtual machine on Android mobile devices. It runs…



 

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