Malware gets your Android blabbering to HACKERS

  • 29 July 2014
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By Darren Pauli, 29 Jul 2014
 
Researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong have developed bizarre malware that dictates contacts, emails and other sensitive text data in order to steal it.
In the novel attack a seemingly innocuous app that required no permissions called a bad guy's phone number and blabbered the stolen data out of the speakers and down the microphone using Google Voice Services (GVS).
 It affected 'nearly all' Android devices and could not be detected by VoicEmployer malware or victims, provided savvy hackers conducted the attack in the wee hours with the volume turned down.
 
The Register/ full read here/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/29/bump_in_the_night_nope_its_your_android_blabbering_to_hackers/
 
 

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Well Anthony do I have to go to a cheap pay as you go non smart phone! Really this is getting ridiculous! Power and control over everything! My word I always say ...unbelievable!
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Author/ Zeljka Zorz/ HNS Managing Editor/ Posted on 29 July 2014.
 
A group of researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong have demonstrated that even applications with zero permissions can be used to launch attacks that allow attackers to forge text and email messages, access private information, receive sensitive data, and even gain remote control of the targeted device.

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Tested on a Samsung Galaxy S3, a Meizu MX2 and a Motorola A953, their "GVS-Attack" was successful independently on whether the device was running the vendor's official Android version or CyanogenMod OS.
 
Help Net Security/ Full Read Here/ http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=17178
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Very scary!
 
All these newly found hacks to Android phones makes me gratefull that I am still using an older phone.

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