Android Trojan Discovered

Published on Thursday, 03 March 2011 Written by Dave

Looks like the Android OS is under fire by the hacking community.

I am a big fan of the android OS for smartphones. I haven't had the opportunity to test it out on a tablet, though I do hope that has a place in my near future.  I am using an HTC hero on Sprint, rooted and running Froyo (Android 2.2) courtesy of the fine folks at xda developers. Until recently, phone security has been far in the back of our minds. With the ever growing popularity and abilities of our smart phones it was only a matter of time before we started to see these kinds of exploits appear. It may be time to run some malware protection on my phone, especially since it is already rooted and running a custom ROM. Google has pulled the app from the market, but has not taken the full measure and yanked the apps from your phone (for better or worse, I agree.) You can see the story and get the list of infected apps here.