ANDROID users are warned..!!!

Beware of ‘Dendroid,’ Android
phone users warned.

The malware can hit smartphone
and control it remotely:
CERT-In
Indian Computer Emergency
Response Team (CERT-In) has
issued an alert asking all Android
smartphone users to
beware of a deadly virus
‘Dendroid,’ “the malicious
application” through which an
attacker can “completely
compromise the affected
smartphone and control it
remotely.”
The warning by the Indian cyber
security agency is significant
as over 90 per cent of
smartphones in India are loaded
with
Google's mobile operating
system.
“It has been reported that a
malicious toolkit called Dendroid
is being used to create Trojanised
applications that infects
Android-based smartphones. The
malware is created by
modifying the required
permissions by any clean APK
(Android
Application Package) with
Dendroid RAT functionality that
allows detailed management of
the infected devices,” says an
advisory by CERT-In that comes
under the Department of
Electronics and IT.
The CERT-In notes that the virus
can perform a number of
malicious activities. The “attack
toolkit” can delete all call
logs, open web pages, dial any
number, record calls and
audio, intercept SMS, upload
images and video to remote
location and open applications, it
adds.

The agency has asked Android-
phone users not to download
and install applications from
untrusted sources and install
applications downloaded from
reputed application market
only.