A new Trojan horse app has emerged to target Android devices, and this one’s particularly creepy. The app records a user’s phone calls and then uploads them to a remote server. While this particular Trojan doesn’t appear to be a threat in the wild–at least not for North American users–it’s a good reminder of the growing threat of mobile malware. New smartphone malware emerges on a weekly–sometimes daily–basis of late, though most users have yet to take the threat as seriously as PC-based malware. There are more mobile devices today than there were PCs connected to the Internet in 1996. Cybercriminals are realizing that, unlike PCs, mobile devices aren’t very well secured. In addition to outright malware, there are other ways that mobile devices can put your secure information at risk. “Smartphone users should indeed have a certain level of concern, or at least a security conscious mindset, when it comes to mobile malware. There are still other threats facing mobile device users that are a bigger concern than mobile malware, namely the loss or theft of a device.
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