New
data stealing Trojan rocks Android
The
new threat to Android devices makes its way to Google Play store, disguised as a
credible application. Android’s application store, Google Play's security has
once again been rattled with the discovery of a new malware application which is
said to be stealing sensitive information from the users' Android
smartphones.
Identified
as 'Trojan!FakeLookout.A' by TrustGo Security Labs, this malicious app steals
user SMS/MMS messages and video files, as well as all the files on the user's SD
card and transmits them to a remote FTP server of the malware maker. The virus
has the potential to cause significant privacy breaches and exposes all the
sensitive personal and business data on users' devices to its creators in no
time.
TrustGo,
one of the popular global security software solutions providers have identified
this new threat in an application on the Google Play Android marketplace. The
malicious Application was hidden within an app named, "Updates" by developer
Good Byte Labs on the Google Play store and has been expected to have infected a
large number Android smartphones world over.
Although
till now no user has reported of being affected by the malware but it is quite
possible that the users who have been infected are not aware of it as of
now.
Normally,
if this Trojan package is executed, users would experience heavier data usage as
the malicious application keeps uploading data to servers.
For
the removal of this malware, users can use antivirus applications such as
Lookout by TrustGo labs to remove this Trojan form their devices, if the
antivirus program fails to remove then a hard reset of the device is advised for
the removal of the Trojan, but remember to take a backup of the data before
resetting the device to avoid losing important data.
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