Hoping to understand what a new generation of mobile malware could resemble, security researchers will demonstrate a malicious “rootkit” program they’ve written for Google’s Android phone next month ...

Researchers at U.S.-based mobile security vendor NQ Mobile claim to have discovered the first rootkit designed to insert malicious apps into the install routines of legitimate software to give them ...

Security researchers plan to demonstrate a rootkit running on an Android-based smartphone that could give an intruder full access to all the functions of the device. Nicholas Percoco and Christian ...

A data-logging software company wants to squash an Android developer's critical research into its software, which is secretly installed on millions of phones.

Code exploits Android's framework to swap real apps for evil ones. Just freaking wonderful. How about announcing a technique to remove or prevent the "click-jacking" instead of telling the entire ...

Can someone legally record almost everything you do on your phone without telling you? Yes. Meet Carrier IQ, whose software is installed on nearly 142 million handsets It turns out your phone may be ...

Hoping to understand what a new generation of mobile malware could resemble, security researchers will demonstrate a malicious "rootkit" program they've written for Google's Android phone next month ...