The Mother of All Android Malware

"Openness – the very characteristic of Android that makes us love it – is a double-edged sword. Redditor lompolo has stumbled upon a perfect example of that fact; he’s noticed that a publisher has taken "… 21 popular free apps from the market, injected root exploits into them and republished." The really scary part? "50k-200k downloads combined in 4 days."
 Source. I'm really impressed by how quickly Google managed this problem. They found all the apps, yanked them out of the Market & from the affected phones, banned the developer. They notify you via e-mail, if your device has been affected, and fix your phone via an update (no, that is not a full OS update, it's not coming from the phone manufacturers).

Actually as it turns out, you can acess the "update" via the Android Market. Nice.

5 comments:

  1. This is unusual for Google to let someone temper with Android apps. Good thing fixes are on the way.

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  2. good to know. thanks for the info!

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  3. Is there anything that does not have malware? This is crazy!

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  4. My friend showed me his yesterday morning, so im going to start looking at this often to see if I want one.

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  5. Nothing for me to worry about, still got my dumbphone.

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