Newly discovered Android malware could bypass Google Bouncer

For those unfamiliar, Google recently unveiled Bouncer, a service which has been around for a while, and whose main purpose is to scan Android Market applications and look for patterns of potentially malicious code. According to Google, the implementation of Bouncer has seen a 40% decrease in the number of potentially malicious downloads from the Android Market, but thanks to a North Carolina State University professor and his team, a new Android malware has been discovered that has the potential to bypass Google’s Bouncer and make its way onto the Android Market undetected. (more…)

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