"You have purchased a what??" This was the reaction some of our colleagues received when they told their relatives & friends of the latest acquisition at NVISO: Our very own ATM (Automated Teller Machine)! With this blog post, we want to walk our readers through the history of ATM security threats and explain the ATM … Continue reading Automated Teller Machine (ATM) security →

We are happy to introduce some new features to NVISO ApkScan today! We are excited to announce the following changes: New features The Sandbox is now using Android 4.1 emulators, instead of the Android 2.3 emulators. We are using a Nexus 4 image to ensure we can run as much samples as possible that make … Continue reading New ApkScan features →

Over the last couple of weeks, we have received quite a few user-submitted Android application samples (.apk files) through our online scanning service ApkScan. The auto-generated analysis reports have already highlighted some interesting results, and we have observed a broad range of malicious activities launched by the uploaded samples: from premium rate phone scams to … Continue reading Step by step analysis of an Android malware sample →

Since our last post on the beta release of ApkScan, we have been working on a couple of new features. This includes the following: A screenshot is now taken during dynamic analysis and added to the report. A risk rating is added to the top of each report. The report overview page now supports dynamic … Continue reading New ApkScan features →

Yesterday we released the first version of ApkScan! For those who can't wait to run some of your Android applications through the scanners, ApkScan can be found at http://apkscan.nviso.be/. Two example reports generated by ApkScan can be found here and here. More details after the screenshot. As we mentioned during a previous blog post, ApkScan … Continue reading ApkScan beta released →