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In September, hackers trying to steal money from accounts at a Spanish bank installed malicious applications on Symbian devices when they synced to home PCs infected with a version of the ZeuS malware.

Users are only vulnerable if they have a previously installed malicious application on their system that they have granted the "Read Sensitive Log Data" extended permission.

Also expect security vulnerabilities to keep showing up that allow malicious applications to access private files stored on your computer by another website.

Instead they should be seen as calls for introducing "adequate safeguards" against "malicious application" of the law.

These include one vulnerability that would allow a malicious application to elevate privileges, and another that would allow a malicious application to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

With Meltdown, a malicious application running on an unpatched device can read the unencrypted kernel memory.

In fact, most malicious applications we discovered were actually hosted on third-party markets and not directly on Google's (Android) Market," he said.

The company has a spotty record when it comes to proactively preventing malicious applications, adware and scareware from going live on its app store, even if it reacts quickly to pull down those apps that get flagged.

Privacy inference attacks based on sensor data is an emerging and severe threat on smart devices, in which malicious applications leverage data from innocuous sensors to infer sensitive information of user, e.g., utilizing accelerometers to infer user's keystroke.

If an attacker can get hold of a valid certificate, they can target specific employees by enticing them into downloading malicious applications, as Michael Shaulov, chief executive of San Francisco-based firm Lacoon Mobile Security demonstrates during a one-on-one presentation over WebEx.

Malicious applications, when installed, typically leave some remnant or digital fingerprint on the system as a result of the installation process.