www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12633923
"More than 50 applications available via the official Android Marketplace have been found to contain a virus.
Analysis suggests that the booby-trapped apps may have been downloaded up to 200,000 times.
The malicious apps were copies of existing applications, such as games, that had been repackaged to include the virus code."
"Once a booby-trapped application is installed and run, the virus lurking within, known as DroidDream, sends sensitive data, such as a phone's unique ID number, to a remote server.
It also checks to see if a phone has already been infected and, if not, uses known exploits to bypass security controls and give its creator access to the handset. This bestows the ability to install any code on a phone or steal any information from it.
The latest version of the Android operating system, known as Gingerbread, is not vulnerable to the exploits DroidDream uses."
I guess it might be a bit of a scare story, but even with the last line it does sound scary.
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Ahh it's par for the course. Make something useful enough (I.e. Powerful and flexible) and if at any point that meets with potential gain for another party... You'll find the bad guys there.
Once tellys or in car entertainment systems are powerful enough, that'll be a whole new world of fun :-)
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