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wraggster
February 6th, 2012, 19:10
Symantec researchers have identified a new premium-rate SMS Android Trojan that modifies its code every time it gets downloaded in order to bypass antivirus detection (http://www.techworld.com.au/article/414311/symantec_warns_android_trojans_mutate_every_downlo ad). This technique is known as server-side polymorphism and has already existed in the world of desktop malware for many years, but mobile malware creators have only now begun to adopt it."
http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/06/0427253/symantec-identifies-android-trojans-that-mutate-with-every-download