While hearing about Android malware is nothing new, the researchers at the CA community found an Android malware, which can record your calls. Holy security, Batman!
It is frightening that the permissions permissions for many other applications, including hardware controls, phone calls, and system tools for this "app" appearance your standard required. You people can see this eagle eyed security and it raises red flags, but average people would probably just install then. This Android malware has include the ability to all your calls in the form of "Amr".
The company never said that this Android malware is actually in the Android market, or that it has met all real users do not freak out so too much. It shows the potential for the bad guys to get on your data, but I will not start freaking out, until we see these sorts of things land on the Android market. To police had the Android market, CA community no matter what you think, Google should or should not do, some good advice for Android users:
As it is already widely recognized that this year is the year of mobile malware, we advice the Smartphone user to be more logical and install movement of basic security principles while surfing, and all applications.
[Via CA community, photo credit: Scarygami]
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