SophosLabs just brought to our attention an item of malware of a sort you don't often see these days.
It's an Android virus, or more precisely, a worm, known as Andr/SlfMite-A.
(For all that we are saying "you don't often see worms," we did report on a short-lived Twitter worm just two weeks ago, but self-replicating malware is nevertheless fairly rare.)
Fifteen to twenty years ago, the malware scene was almost all about viruses and worms: although the internet was popular, only a small minority went online regularly, so malware couldn't rely on sitting around in inboxes or on websites waiting to be clicked.
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