Submission + - Sophisticated Android Trojan spreading in China (mylookout.com)
Hering writes: "A new Trojan affecting Android devices has recently emerged Trojan affecting Android devices has recently emerged in China. Dubbed “Geinimi”, this Trojan can compromise a significant amount of personal data on a user’s phone and send it to remote servers. The most sophisticated Android malware seen to date, Geinimi is also the first Android malware in the wild that displays botnet-like capabilities. Once the malware is installed on a user’s phone, it has the potential to receive commands from a remote server that allow the owner of that server to control the phone.Geinimi is effectively being “grafted” onto repackaged versions of legitimate applications, primarily games, and distributed in third-party Chinese Android app markets. The affected applications request extensive permissions over and above the set that is requested by their legitimate original versions. The possibilities for intent range from a malicious ad-network to an attempt to create an Android botnet."
