hey friends...now we all are very familiar with smart phones. They gave a huge bump in our social life. We are using lots of applications to easier our work . Surely it enhance our working capability.
But a serious question arise whether we are in safe world of applications ?
Is our personal data is secure ?
Here is the answer...Google has launched its smart operating system named ANDROID. It has a basic benefit that it provides an open source environment which sounds cool to its user because user has opportunity to free download thousands of apps.
Hackers and other private parties may harm your device or breach the security and may take your confidential data.
Fake Gmail Android Application:
Mobile security researchers from NQ Mobile have intercepted a fake Gmail Android application dubbed DDSpy.
The SMS based command and control feature of DDSpy is capable of uploading SMS messages, call logs, and vocal records to a remote server. The malware authors behind the fake Gmail Android application have included a hard-coded email address which can be easily changed using SMS messages. Moreover, the malicious application automatically starts recording outbound calls, or when instructed to do so over SMS.
According to NQ Mobile’s researchers, they expect that the new features will be introduced in this malicious applications, due to the spotted unused interfaces using GPS technology which they found while analyzing the malicious application.
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