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Forum Security-X => News => Discussion démarrée par: igor51 le mai 29, 2012, 18:00:45
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Foncy is Dead, Long Live Mania
<p><strong>By Denis Maslennikov</strong></p><p><img src="https://threatpost.com/sites/default/files/denis_0.jpg" alt="" title="" style="float: left;" border="0" height="100" width="100" />In the middle of January 2012 Foncy was <a href="http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193332/IRC_bot_for_Android">updated:</a> it started to spread together with an IRC bot and a root exploit. But the end of the Foncy story was very close because in February two suspected authors of this malware were arrested in Paris: you can read the story <a href="http://www.linformaticien.com/actualites/id/23741/2000-utilisateurs-d-android-escroques-en-seine-saint-denis.aspx">here</a> in French and <a href="http://www.securelist.com/en/analysis/204792223/Monthly_Malware_Statistics_February_2012">here</a> in English. Since then we haven?t found any new modifications of this piece of malware.</p><p><a href="http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/foncy-dead-long-live-mania-052912" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Source: Foncy is Dead, Long Live Mania (http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/foncy-dead-long-live-mania-052912)