The most sophisticated Trojan for Android smartphones yet. That’s how security firm Lookout describes “Geinimi,” a nasty piece of malicious software it has just discovered grafted on to downloads of some popular Android gaming apps.
The risk to Westerners is presumably limited, since versions of the tainted gaming app have only turned up on a Chinese mobile apps website. An Android user in the US, for instance, would only be exposed to this Trojan if he or she visited the Chinese site and downloaded the viral copy of the gaming apps in question.
“We’ve only seen this Trojan occur in app stores targeting Chinese users,” says Lookout CTO Kevin Mahaffey. He says it’s “possible infected apps could be posted to app stores targeting U.S. users in the future.”
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