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March 6, 2011 11:19 am GMT
On March 1, news broke that dozens of malicious applications had made their way to Android Market, each infected with a rootkit that could grant hackers deep access to Android devices that installed them. Google quickly removed the malicious applications from Android Market, but has otherwise remained silent on the situation. Until now (at 10PM on a Saturday...)Google has now confirmed that 58 malicious applications were uploaded to Android Market, and that they were downloaded onto around 260,000 devices before Google removed the apps Tuesday evening. That number sounds alarmingly high, but Google believes that only device-specific information, namely the phone's IMEI number, was compromised " and that no personal data or account information was ever transferred. Given that these apps were getting root access, this could have been a lot worse. Now the cleanup begins.
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Google Responds To Android Malware, Will Fix Infected Devices And "~Remote Kill' Malicious Apps
On March 1, news broke that dozens of malicious applications had made their way to Android Market, each infected with a rootkit that could grant hackers deep access to Android devices that installed them. Google quickly removed the malicious applications from Android Market, but has otherwise remained silent on the situation. Until now (at 10PM on a Saturday...)Google has now confirmed that 58 malicious applications were uploaded to Android Market, and that they were downloaded onto around 260,000 devices before Google removed the apps Tuesday evening. That number sounds alarmingly high, but Google believes that only device-specific information, namely the phone's IMEI number, was compromised " and that no personal data or account information was ever transferred. Given that these apps were getting root access, this could have been a lot worse. Now the cleanup begins.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/cusrbbtuFXc/
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