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Researchers find many malicious application in Android market
Android users must still be careful when you download programs from Google's Android market. A study re-discover the existence of evil in which programs.
Researchers find many malicious application in Android market
The survey was conducted by professor Xuxian Jiang, from North Carolina State University in the United States. Jiang found 12 malicious applications on Android market, a few months old and transferred to hundreds of thousands of times.
As quoted from TheRegister, Monday (13/06/2011), all malicious programs that have been removed by Google from Android market.
10 12 applications, discovery contains a hidden code to collect and send the record track of browsing, bookmarks and user device information.
10 malicious programs, which also contains a "back street" that makes programs is updated without user's knowledge. Update it also may contain malicious code that much anymore.
10 programs that supposedly contains the data collection feature, login to Facebook, Gmail and other accounts. But according to Jiang use this feature.
2 12 programs that can make a toll-collapse victims. This is because the secret to send short messages to certain premium services.
1 of 12 programmes had raised in the application Bazaar, sponsored by Google. It shows their shrewdness in the guise of good programs.
1 of 12 applications were named angry birds Rio locks. Clearly, the popularity of the game are trying mendompleng angry birds.
In response to these findings, said a spokesman for Google, there was no indication that the application was found, has been used to break into Google user accounts.
"We are aware of and has frozen a number of suspicious applications from Android market. We remove applications and developer account, that violates our policy, "said Google's official statement.Google has, in fact, a rather intensive attention to security. This is mainly on Web services and browsers. But in the case of Android events often occurs.
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