Scientists reveal new malware detection method

Scientists from NQ Mobile's Mobile Security Research Center, in collaboration with North Carolina State University disclosed a new way to detect mobile threats without relying on known malware samples and their signatures.

Today, malicious software often sits in app marketplaces for days, weeks and even months being downloaded, before finally being discovered.

RiskRanker is a unique analysis system that can automatically detect whether a particular app exhibits dangerous behavior. It differs from other malware tools by identifying apps with risky behavior while they are in the app market and before they make their way to a user's phone.

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If you’re keeping score in the battle of NQ Mobile vs. malware, chalk up a major win for NQ Mobile today. We proudly announced RiskRanker™ , a new way to detect mobile security and privacy threats before they have a chance to do any harm to users.

In a trial run earlier this year RiskRanker scanned over one hundred thousand apps from a variety of marketplaces that provide Android applications and identified 718 malware threats, including 322 zero-day threats.