Android malware embeds into browsers, intercepts and changes URLs

  • 10 June 2016
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It might be gone, but more like it will return.
David Bisson | June 10, 2016                                                

 An Android trojan is capable of embedding into mobile browsers, intercepting URL requests, and modifying those URLs so users are sent to other web pages.
 
Back in March, researchers at Kaspersky Lab spotted a new Android trojan circulating in the wild. That trojan, which the researchers named "Triada," is known for its modular functionality and for assuming superuser privileges once it successfully infects the Zygote process, a core Android operating system.
 
As the researchers explain in a blog post, Zygote marks a new stage in the evolution of Android malware:
 
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Oh dear, 'poor' Google...it just does not get any better on the Android front, does it...LOL

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