New Android virus tries to steal personal information from your phone, and install mechanisms to allow remote control
Poor new mobile virus with smartphones that use the Android operating system. According to the company Lookout, she recognized him, "Gemini" device capable of detecting a significant amount of personal information and transmit it to remote servers.This is not a mass distribution - the virus found so far only a few shops and Chinese mobile applications, when it is pirated versions of games, including Monkey Jump 2, President vs. Aliens, City Defence and Sex Positions. These are all legitimate games clean when applications are insurgents and ordinary shops.
Downloading infected are asked to approve applications have access to much more information than they really need, these information collection when the virus passes out. In addition, it has mechanisms that allow to take over the phone, enabling mobile operators to create a Botnet - Network Instruments all controlled by one operator, and able to distribute spam or participate in attacks on servers
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