Posted on 06/24/2016 9:26:33 PM PDT by Utilizer
A new family of malicious apps, most of which were available on the Google Play Store, all containing malicious codes have been detected by a group of security researchers. The Godless apps are believed to be able secretly to root 90 percent of all Android phones.
AntiVirus provider, Trend Micro wrote in a recent blog post that they had discovered a new family of malicious apps. The apps called, Godless, contains a collection of the rooting exploits that can work on any device which is running the Android version 5.1 and below.
This means that close to 90 percent of Android devices are at risk of being affected. Members of the app group have been discovered in the various app stores, including Google Play, and as of now have been installed on approximately 850,000 of devices worldwide. Godless apps are known to have struck the hardest in India, Indonesia, and Thailand. In the US, less than 2 percent of affected people are present.
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They named an app after the Clintons?
When you make Open Source Code, that means anyone can write software than can do anything.
Not everyone is going to write software that does what it is advertised to do, and many will do whatever they can to profit from their work. By hook or by crook.
There is a very good reason that secure systems use the sandbox concept.
Ping for your Android list.
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