Android, the platform that registers substantial growth at the moment, seems to have been hit by the goodwill of some hackers who thought of making a new type of malware interesting. If your terminal is infected with this new type of malware, then you will be surprised to find out that all your conversations have been secretly recorded and uploaded to the hackers' servers. The malware is hidden in an application available in the Android Market which, once installed, downloads a file from an online server and then records the conversations made by users and uploads them to the servers of hackers.
We have been recently blogging about many Android malware as the threat landscape has been witnessing an increasing trend in targeting the mobile platforms and today we have received an Android package to our collection and observed that this piece of malware walks an additional mile by having a neat configuration and has a capability to record the telephone conversation the infected victim makes. In one of our earlier blogs, we have demonstrated how a Trojan logs all the details of incoming/outgoing calls and call duration in a text file. This Trojan is more advanced as it records the conversation itself in "amr" format. Also it has got many other malicious activities that we have seen in many of the earlier malware incidents targeted for Android platform.
Of course, the whole process takes place without the consent of the user who has no idea what his terminal is doing while he quietly plays a flash game. You will not encounter problems of this kind on iOS or other similar systems, but on Android you will have enough problems with malware and viruses. Android is starting to look more and more like Windows, that is, it is becoming more and more popular and has more and more attention from hackers, and from here until the launch of dedicated professional antivirus applications, it is only one step.
