Mobile antivirus apps for Android are easy to deceive. Often only simple modifications to malicious files needed.
discovered researchers from two American universities, reports Dark Reading. The researchers tested ten popular apps. All were found to circumvent by using.
variations on popular Android malware
Sommmige apps, like the popular AVG, malware were no longer recognizable as this was simply another name. Other methods, such as encryption or order of the code change, had the app or by.
free app Lookout is the worst in the test. The scanner was fooled by all fourteen attempted methods.
Improvement
Although all apps have their weaknesses, the researchers generally positive about the improvements in recent times have been made. his “The result we have certainly shows improvement,” said Yan Chen. “Yet this is far from good.”
Apps have it too often is not changed by malware code as light is Chen. He therefore advocates antivirus apps ‘smarter’ to recognize or software is malicious.
It is unclear to what extent the test of the researchers is representative of threats that occur ‘in the wild’. Symantec, maker of Norton security apps, says its software also detects malware that matches its own code. But because the malware in the study never happened, outside the lab will not be recognized, according to a spokesman told Dark Reading.
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By: Nutech / Jeroen Crane
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