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Android malware carries Windows snooping app
Topic Started: Feb 5 2013, 06:44 PM (177 Views)
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04 February 2013, 18:44
Android malware carries Windows snooping app

Android security Kaspersky is reporting on malware found in the Google Play store that is loaded with more than just Android malware. The trick in this case is to covert the smartphone into a version of a rather traditional vector for PC malware.

The "Superclean" application and its twin "DroidCleaner" offer themselves as phone clean-up applications which will boost your smartphone's performance by clearing out old data. All the "cleaners" apparently do when run is show all the running services and then step through restarting all the applications on the phone. But behind the scenes it is a different story: the app moves on to quietly download three files and save them as "autorun.inf", "folder.ico" and "svchosts.exe" in the root directory of the SD card. Now the phone is ready to infect any PC that it is plugged into when in USB drive emulation mode – if, of course, it still autoruns removable media, and will trigger the running of "svchosts.exe". In current versions of Windows though, autorun is disabled so the attack should only be a threat to users running older unpatched operating system versions.


http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Android-malware-carries-Windows-snooping-app-1797241.html
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