Geinimi: The Android Trojan takes control of your smartphone

On December 29, 2010, Lookout, a San Francisco based Smartphone security firm, gave a warning for Android-based Smartphone users called Geinimi is affected by a sophisticated Trojan. According to Lookout Geinimi is the most modern malware on Android devices to date with "botnet related features.", It can control over user devices and transfer sensitive information to a remote server. The Trojan made his debut in China and would gradually in other regions. The biggest problem is that Geinimi comes with legitimate apps, mainly games. After you have installed the infected app on your Android phone, it would take questions to ask too many personal information. Digital trends reports:

so far Gemini has been observed, grafted on legitimate apps - games - that are on Android Smartphones from ignorant patrons of third-party Android app stores downloaded. Allegedly an unusually high access to devices challenge the infected apps then and then, boom, it's a zombie phone.

After the Trojan a particular control device would send it the position of the user takes, transfer the unique device ID number as download apps forth and force the user to install them. It can provide several apps installed on a remote server. So far, the malware detected in China was and it is believed that the main objective of this malicious software to connect to a "malicious ad network."

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