Malicious app found on Android marketplace

[pwnst*r]

Yikes

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The application, developed by Droid09, poses as a shell for mobile banking applications that phishes for personal data about the user's bank details and the users themselves, presumably for identity theft.

lol?

[SuperSonic4]

Using an application to access your bank account is always folly

[pwnst*r]

Not if it's approved by the bank itself. I use my bank's app on the iPhone. It's quite good.

[Tristam Green]

Not if it's approved by the bank itself. I use my bank's app on the iPhone. It's quite good.

I would only download my bank's app for my phone if I were to see advertisements for it *in* the bank itself or on official bank correspondence, which of course I am sure you did as well.

In regards to what happened as outlined in the OP, I'll say this much: PT Barnum was right.

[starcannon]

I would only download my bank's app for my phone if I were to see advertisements for it *in* the bank itself or on official bank correspondence, which of course I am sure you did as well.

In regards to what happened as outlined in the OP, I'll say this much: PT Barnum was right.

+1 to the entire post.

[pwnst*r]

I would only download my bank's app for my phone if I were to see advertisements for it *in* the bank itself or on official bank correspondence, which of course I am sure you did as well.

Yep, and it is.

[Giant Speck]

The sudden rise in malware being developed for Linux-based operating systems, which are advertised (by the companies that produce them or by the users themselves) as being malware-free, is a sign that Linux-based operating systems are finally becoming mainstream.

Wait... what?

[Queue29]

The sudden rise in malware being developed for Linux-based operating systems, which are advertised (by the companies that produce them or by the users themselves) as being malware-free, is a sign that Linux-based operating systems are finally becoming mainstream.

Wait... what?

Not on the desktop, but on the phone, yea. Linux based phones have been around for a while, but Android is really what's kicking it into the mainstream.

[pwnst*r]

Not on the desktop, but on the phone, yea. Linux based phones have been around for a while, but Android is really what's kicking it into the mainstream.

[alphaniner]

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