Rootkit for the Android Phone

Searching_ _ _ · Jun 6, 2010

Hoping to understand what a new generation of mobile malware could resemble, security researchers will demonstrate a malicious "rootkit" program they've written for Google's Android phone next month at the Defcon hacking conference in Las Vegas.
Once it's installed on the Android phone, the rootkit can be activated via a phone call or SMS (short message service) message, giving attackers a stealthy and hard-to-detect tool for siphoning data from the phone or misdirecting the user. "You call the phone, the phone doesn't ring, and when the phone realizes that it's being called by an attacker's phone number, it sends him back a shell [program]," said Christian Papathanasiou, a security consultant with Chicago's Trustwave, the company that did the research.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/060210-android-rootkit-is-just-a.html?t51hb

kC_ · Jun 6, 2010

id imagine it would only affect those who root their phones

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