The story – Smelly Smelly apk One of my colleagues came to me with an apk (Android application), he said he can’t make it work on his Genymotion emulator but he’s 100% certain it’s an Iranian malware. Based on his observation the guy behind this application was spending more than 500$ daily to spread this app on Telegram messenger public channels, he was basically paying channel administrators with huge number of members to advertise and spread his application. A non-exhaustive list of channels observed by us is provided at the end of this post (note that channel moderators remove the...
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Babak Amin Azad
I'm a PhD candidate at Stony Brook University. I work on the topics of web security. My main focus is on "Web Application Attack Surface Reduction Through Software Debloating".
I also study internet bots and anti-bot technologies, and pretty much anything related to web and mobile security.
I also study internet bots and anti-bot technologies, and pretty much anything related to web and mobile security.