Malware Posing As Official Google Play Store Evades Most Security Checks 100
DavidGilbert99 (2607235) writes Mobile malware on Android is nothing new, but now security company FireEye has discovered in the Google Play store a sophisticated piece of malware which is posing as....the official Google Play store. Using the same icon but a different name, the malware is not being detected by the vast majority of security vendors, is difficult to uninstall and steals your messages, security certificates and banking details.
Uh... (Score:2, Insightful)
You mean the malware isn't Google Play itself (Score:5, Insightful)
I mean, with the recent dumbing down of fine-grained authorizations when installing apps, it's Google Play itself that feels like a security liability.
Re:Umm.. (Score:4, Insightful)
The malware is named "Googl app stoy".
If you're dumb enough to download something spelled that way, you deserve, well, almost anything.
Re:Android Security (Score:3, Insightful)
Because Google values their ability to sell advertising over user security would be my guess.
Remember, it's their phone, you're only using it under license -- because Google has long since given up any pretense of the whole "do no evil" thing.
I see so many things list their permissions and think "WTF would you need these permissions for, and why on Earth would I give them to you?" And then I cancel the download.