They discovered a new malware threat that after being installed can evade virus scans and permissions requests. Meaning Google bouncer wont see their ID is fake and let them get wasted inside. After inside your device kicking it with his new buddies, he will make a quick call to a server and download some new buddies (code) to crash the party. This process can be triggered days, weeks or even months later. Hiding the data transfer in the phones communications.
Sounds pretty nefarious to me. To make matters worse, the downloaded code has a name that we have all heard in the past, “GingerBreak.”Giving the evil doers complete access to your device without your knowledge. Often times calling paid numbers, reading data or listening through the microphone to your most darkest secrets, or just your lame conversation at the pub.
As it sits right now though, the U.S. is currently safe. At least for now. The Rootsmart wasn’t found in the official Android Market, only in a Chinese app download site. Not sure how they can tell, since its primary goal is to ‘EVADE’ detection and install to your device, but that’s what the good people at Forbes are saying. NCSU’s Jiang seems to agree with me - “At the very least, this would cause some challenges for a Bouncer-like system,” he says. “I expect we’ll see more of this in the future.”
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I know the solution, if the method that requests additional instructions from a evil server is activated by the passing of time. Bouncer’s virtual machine would just have to run a time accelerated instance of Android in order to check to see if such code exists.
That is a great solution. not that it wouldn’t take but a few more edits to get around that. I think the virus companies and people are in cahoots with the virus protection companies. I bet Apple is behind the whole thing since computers were invented. Those bastards, trying to make themselves look good.