Sebastian Porst explains what Google has done to protect users from phishing apps targeting Russian banks.
In the last few years, mobile malware has evolved from a mostly theoretical threat to a very serious one that affects many users. Indeed, several talks at VB2015 dealt with various aspects of mobile security in general and that of the widely used
Android
operating system in particular.
No company has as deep an insight into
Android
malware as
Google
, which develops the operating system. In a last-minute presentation, Sebastian Porst, from the
Android
Security Team, explained what the company does to combat ‘potentially harmful applications’, as it calls them, and in particular what it did in a number of phishing apps that targeted Russian banks.
We have uploaded Sebastian’s presentation to our
YouTube
channel. Other VB2015 papers and presentations will follow shortly.
Posted on 16 December 2015 by
Martijn Grooten
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