At the end of last week, researchers at Kaspersky Lab announced to the media that they had identified a new trojan targeting Android smartphones, disguised as a Tic Tac Toe (also known as “Noughts and crosses”) game.
According to the Russian security firm, the Gomal Trojan hid behind the disguise of a seemingly harmless game to steal information from home and corporate users:
Gomal has all the usual spyware functionality. It can record sounds, process calls and steal SMS. In addition it possesses mechanisms that provide access to various Linux services, attacking the operating system on which Android is based. In particular, the Trojan can read the process memory, jeopardizing many communication applications. For example, it can steal emails from Good for Enterprise. That application is positioned as a secure email client for corporate use, so data theft here could mean serious problems for the company where the device owner works.
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