Cyber criminals getting smarter

New tricks and techniques are up their sleeves

Last time when you removed a malware from your mobile phone, did you ever imagine how badly you are going to be hit back by its successors very soon? Yes, removing malware has now become a never ending process and what is scarier is that every time you detect a new malware, it comes back with more strategic and trickier methods to target your computer or your mobile phone.

Creators of malicious threats are leaving no stones unturned to come up with innovative and dangerous ways to infect your system and mobile phones. Malicious threat creators are looking beyond than just creating a malware. They are looking at things which can help them in creating more complex and dangerous threats.

A research conducted by Symantec, a global security firm, said that creators of malware threats are getting bolder and smarter than ever. They are coming up with malicious techniques much more sophisticated than ever to make malware more dangerous and difficult to remove or even detect.

Many sophisticated techniques and strategies that the creators of malicious threats adopt to harm your mobile phones or computers have come to the notice of the computer security firm, Symantec. Read on to know some of them:

Separating the malicious Android package

Until recently, the malicious Android package came as a complete staged payload. However, it had the disadvantage of getting detected due to its size. So, creators of malicious threats have came up with the idea of separating the malicious Android package into staged payloads. What they do here is that they break the threat into separate modules and deliver it independently, making it highly difficult for antivirus and anti-malware tools to detect it.

Automatic download

Creators of malware-threats are making the malware intelligent with complicated coding. These specially designed malware can perform further downloads on your mobile phone once they manage to break through it. The download can be carried out without your permission or consent.

In-app exploitation

Now be careful when you are using in-app features of certain apps installed on your Android phone. Symantec has observed that these in-app features are exploited to inject malicious codes without the notice of users. In-apps are functions in the app which facilitate the promotion and/or download of further apps on the Android platform.

Nothing is going to stop these cybercriminals. But then you too can show them the door by using powerful antivirus, anti-spyware, etc. and above all, by becoming more careful.