Geinimi: Android Gets A New Trojan

[Guest]

The open Android Marketplace as well as the capability of downloading virtually anything to an Android phone is, conceivably, exposing Android phones to much greater malware risk than the iPhone.

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[nforce4max]

So much for security these days.

 

[milktea]

Google market needs to add a new feature to rate the security of the Apps.

An App that requests permission for installing and uninstalling of apps should never be trusted. And I just don't see why that is even necessary for any App.

 

[nebun]

it's all good, they can get all they want from me 😉 even my naked pics

 

[lashabane]

[citation][nom]mayankleoboy1[/nom]damn!even google is not hacker proof[/citation]
Nothing is hacker proof.

 

[alzheimerz]

I have a Symbian phone. No Trojan. No problem.

 

[THEfog101]

[citation][nom]alzheimerz[/nom]I have a Symbian phone. No Trojan. No problem.[/citation]

I have a Rock. No Trojan. No Problem.

see what i did there.

 

[Vladislaus]

In Geinimi's case, the app asks for location coordinates, device identifiers, the permission for installing and uninstalling of apps, and a list of installed apps on a device.

Google made it very easy to know to what an app will have access when installing it but most people simply choose to ignore it. I think most people should reeducate themselves in terms of information security.

 

[pim69]

sooo... they know exactly the domains the malware reports to. Pretty easy to find out who hosts/owns those domains and sue them, isnt it? I don't get it... why havent they been shut down already?

 

[g00fysmiley]

pim that depends where thier servers are, if they re in a country that us or interpol have no jurisdiction over and in a country that has no laws against cyber crimes then no it technically isn't illegal at all

 

[pim69]

Hopefully they quickly get added to DNS blacklists on internet backbone servers in North America then. Most of the internet's backbone is in the US, so servers in other countries maybe can't be physically brought down, but it's easy to make all the internet's DNS servers ignore them.

 

[borisof007]

[citation][nom]thefog101[/nom]I have a Rock. No Trojan. No Problem.see what i did there.[/citation]

lololol

 

[patito97]

Is this whole thing really that bad? Articles like this make it seem horrible:
http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=461296

while articles like this make it seem benign:
http://tinyurl.com/androidNotMuchToWorryAbout

Like usual, seems to be a lot of talk and not much hard info.