Start-up Lacoon Mobile Security has begun offering software for Android and Apple iOS devices designed to detect malware attacks through what amounts to a sandboxing approach.Michael Shaulov, founder and CEO of Lacoon, says the lightweight agent software examines mobile applications through behavior analysis and a process that involves uploading them to the Lacoon cloud gateway. The goal is to detect zero-day malware and not only notify the user, but take specific actions to get rid of the malware. In some cases, including rootkits that are becoming known to target mobile devices, Lacoon may not be able to uninstall them but instead will stop rootkit actions through a block-and-containment approach.One way Lacoon wants to stop malware it detects on infected and compromised devices is by alerting and blocking attempts at exfiltration of data. "We want to understand if the mobile device is compromised by some kind of Trojan," says Shaulov.[DON'T TRUST THE NSA?
