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Monday, January 12, 2015

Aggressive Riskware Installation on Amazon Kindle (and Android) | Fortinet Blog

As malware continues to grow on Android (900K malicious samples and 1,300 new per day), we sometimes forget attacks can also affect other devices... like Amazon's Kindle. The Kindle indeed runs Fire OS, a fork of Android. Thus, in several cases, Android malware also work on Fire OS, and reciprocally. Proof below.
Some time ago, while surfing on an old Wordpress website with his Kindle, a user got this pop-up:


Aggressive Riskware Installation on Amazon Kindle (and Android) | Fortinet Blog

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