Android "Heart App" virus spreads quickly, author arrested within 17 hours

This is a tricky one. I installs from a link "sent" from a friend who's phone has already been compromised, it then sends itself to the first 99 of your contacts followed by a second stage where it installs a trojan which will steal Personally Identifiable Information.
 
by Paul Ducklin on August 11, 2014
 

 
SophosLabs has been following an interesting Android malware story over the past week.
The malware goes by the name XX?? (XXshenqi) in Chinese, or the Heart App, as it calls itself in English.
In theory, the implication seems to be that you can use the app, which you receive as an SMS invitation from one of your friends, to organise a romantic hook-up.
In practice, however, you and your friends will just end up with SMS headaches.
 
 
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