Virus Android secretly recording calls

TTO – A new trojan virus types have been found, which specializes in the phone to use Android, secretly recorded calls of all suffering. Thing more terrifying, according to experts, this malicious virus is part of the “new wave” that hackers are conducting targeted device using Android and IOS.

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Specifically, this trojan will automatically re-recorded calls to and stored in SD memory card. The findings of the experts of the security company Dinesh Venkatesan CA Technologies.
According to Venkatesan, concealed under the guise of this trojan software application looks completely normal and harmless. When the user presses the button “install” (install) is at their own “Networks and the body.” Once successfully installed, any outgoing calls were made from the device will be recorded in secret that employers do not know, then save to memory card.


More worryingly, the team seems Venkatesan said electronic crime is gradually abandoning the traditional smartphone platforms such as Symbian (Nokia) or Microsoft Windows Mobile (the predecessor of Windows Phone) to focus on “human resources” for Apple’s IOS and Android from Google. While the current IOS is proved very reliable in terms of security, Android is a mobile operating system “unscathed” worst, by having too many people use this platform makes it “mine gold “for those who spread viruses, malware …
More than 800 applications Android is leaking personal data of users

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Dasient security company, after studying 10,000 applications for Android smartphones, has discovered a disturbing fact: more than 8% of those doing the work “quietly” sent any personal information of users to the server of unknown origin. Type of data being sent is the most SMS messages and contacts.
Dasient’s CTO, Neil Daswani, also warned of Android “dirty” has doubled in just two years. This is contributing by malicious web page, automatically install malware on the user’s device when they accidentally flipped through the pages with smartphone. In addition, the malicious software disguised as well-known brand names appearing on a lot, new Android users last month were shaken when an application is “dirty” disguised as add-on (software support) for … Angry Birds for game to appear on the App Store.
Android has accounted for nearly half of all smartphone on the planet

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Specifically, according to research firm Canalys, 48% market share of mobile operating systems worldwide was in the hands, “noted robotics” Android.
And not surprisingly, second place belongs to Apple’s IOS with 19% market share (up from the hands of Nokia Symbian).
The gap between Google and Apple on the smartphone platform market is mainly the result of Android is an open operating system, and is used by a huge amount of vendor hardware, while the platform iOS of Apple just for the iPhone by the production company. HTC, Samsung and Motorola are the typical large company is very strong hand in its making of Android.
In particular, the Asia – Pacific almost own Android platform: in Korea, 85% in the country smartphone operating system from Google, which is similar in Taiwan with 71% market share of about Android.
After Apple and Google, RIM occupy third place with the Blackberry platform OS (operating system is most popular in Latin America). Finally, Windows Mobile platforms (including Windows Mobile 7 and all versions of Windows Mobile for smartphone before) only accounts for a mere 1% market share of global mobile OS.
Source:thegioiandroid.com