Security News > 2017 > June > First Android-Rooting Trojan With Code Injection Ability Found On Google Play Store (The Hackers News)

2017-06-08 10:03
A new Android-rooting malware with an ability to disable device’ security settings in an effort to perform malicious tasks in the background has been detected on the official Play Store. What's interesting? The app was smart enough to fool Google security mechanism by first pretending itself to be a clean app and then temporarily replacing it with a malicious version. Security researchers at
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~3/RzJCD1b9xFs/android-rooting-malware.html
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