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Worm-like Android malware spreads using text messages

2014-05-01 13:46:33| InfoWorld: Top News

A piece of malware targeting Russian-speaking Android users abuses a person's contact list to try and infect other devices, according to security vendor Eset. The malware, call "Android/Samsapo.A" can download other malicious files to a phone, steal personal information from a device such as text messages, and block phone calls, wrote Robert Lipovsky, an Eset malware researcher. The malware uploads data to a domain that was registered about a week ago.

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