Sunday, March 25, 2012

Mobile malware: Beware drive-by downloads on your smartphone

via InfoWorld News on 3/23/12

While Jeff Schmidt, the CEO of JAS Global Advisors, was surfing the Web on his new Android smartphone (his first Android phone) earlier this year, what appeared to be an ad popped up on his screen. The "ad" looked like the prompt that appears when his phone rings. He clicked the button on the ad to pick up the putative call, and the ad began downloading a binary file -- malware -- onto his Android phone.

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