Being on top can get you a lot of attention. However, this limelight may not always be good for you. While most coders are happy to develop apps for popular platforms, some take the destructive route by writing malware. In computers, Windows has been dealing with these threats for a long time. Not surprisingly, Androids are now prime victims among smartphones.

 

According to the CA technologies (CA), they have found a new Trojan that can record calls from a victim's mobile. To test its abilities, CA's Dinesh Venkateshan ran the Trojan in an emulator. It was observed that the application pretends to be legitimate by showing approval prompts. Once, the permissions are given, the malware adds a remote server configuration file on the infected device. It then records every call and saves it to an AMR file on the phone's SD card.

 

Apart from slowing down your device, we suspect that this malware might even be able to upload recorded conversations to an online server maintained by the attacker or maybe the Murdoch's NewsCorporation.

 

Source:techtree.com