DroidKungFu Malware for Android Devices
Just a week ago Google removed about two dozens of applications from Android Market, because they were infected with malware known as DroidDreamLight. When an app infected with this malware was downloaded, it started to send all the personal information of the user (contacts, passwords, credit cards and more) to its developers.
A couple of days ago details about the new version of this malware, called DroidKungFu, appeared. As the blog of the University of North Carolina reports, the DroidKungFu works just like the DroidDream, but has more sophisticated methods of concealment that allow it to bypass almost all the known security systems.
The program opens a so-called “backdoor” in your smartphone that allows not only to steal all your personal data, but also to get full control of your smartphone.
There are at least two identified DroidKungFu-infected Android applications, which were distributed in more than eight third-party Android app stores in China. Researchers have not yet found any infected applications in non-Chinese app stores, but we should all be very careful anyway.
Usually virus-infected apps appear on our smartphones when we download them from third-party app stores and not from official ones. So if you want to protect yourself and your smartphone, download software only from official and trusted sources.
The DroidKungFu can infect the devices running Android 2.2 or earlier. However, the smartphones running Android 2.3 are safe, since Google has fixed the security flaw the malware used.
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