Sophisticated Android trojan discovered in China, warns security firm

Firm Lookout Mobile�Security is warning of a new,�sophisticated, Android-focused�piece of malware that has been found in China. The security company warns that the trojan, dubbed Geinimi, can “compromise a significant amount of personal data on a user?s phone and send it to remote servers.” The�malicious�code is, currently, only found in third-party�application�stores attached to republished�versions�of legitimate applications. “Geinimi is the first Android malware in the wild that displays botnet-like capabilities,” reads the post on the company’s blog. “Once the malware is installed on a user?s phone, it has the potential to receive commands from a remote server that allow the owner of that server to control the phone.” Upon installation, compromised applications containing Geinimi’s payload will prompt users to grant the

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