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Worm-like Android malware spreads using text messages |
May 01, 2014
A piece of malware targeting Russian-speaking Android users abuses a person’s contact list to try and infect other devices, according to security vendor Eset.The malware, call “Android/Samsapo.A” can download other malicious files to a phone, steal personal information from a device such as text messages and block phone calls, wrote Robert Lipovsky, an Eset malware researcher. The malware uploads data to a domain that was registered about a week ago.Samsapo spreads by sending text messages from an infected device to other people in the victim’s contact list, a worm-like characteristic that has been used by other mobile malware programs.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2150400/wormlike-android-malware-spreads-using-text-messages.html#tk.rss_all
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