Exploit-powered Android Trojan uses update attack

A new variant of the DroidKungFu Android Trojan is posing as a legitimate application update in order to infect handsets, according to security researchers from Finnish antivirus vendor F-Secure.

Distributing Android malware as updates is a relatively new tactic that was first seen in July. The primary method of infecting handsets continues to be the bundling of Trojans with legitimate applications; however, the resulting apps are easy to spot because of the extensive permissions they request at installation time.

Source: http://podcasts.infoworld.com/d/security/exploit-powered-android-trojan-uses-update-attack-177115?source=rss_mobile_technology

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