{"id":24753,"date":"2011-03-02T20:44:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T19:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/?p=24753"},"modified":"2011-03-02T20:44:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T19:44:55","slug":"landroide-malato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2011\/03\/02\/landroide-malato\/","title":{"rendered":"L&#8217;androide malato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/03\/01\/android-malware-apps\/\">Via Mashable<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"android-malware-apps\" src=\"http:\/\/5.mshcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/android-malware-apps.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"141\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/google\">Google<\/a> has just pulled 21 popular free apps from the <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/android\">Android<\/a> Market. According to the company, the apps are malware aimed at getting  root access to the user\u2019s device, gathering a wide range of available  data, and downloading more code to it without the user\u2019s knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Although Google has swiftly removed the apps after being notified (by the ever-vigilant <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/2011\/03\/01\/the-mother-of-all-android-malware-has-arrived-stolen-apps-released-to-the-market-that-root-your-phone-steal-your-data-and-open-backdoor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Android Police<\/a><\/em> bloggers), the apps in question have already been downloaded by at least 50,000 Android users.<\/p>\n<p>The  apps are particularly insidious because they look just like knockoff  versions of already popular apps. For example, there\u2019s an app called  simply \u201cChess.\u201d The user would download what he\u2019d assume to be a chess  game, only to be presented with a very different sort of app.<\/p>\n<p>These  apps are all pirated versions of popular games and utilities \u2014 an  expeditious solution for busy hackers. Once downloaded, the apps root  the user\u2019s device using a method like rageagainstthecage, then use an  Android executable file (APK) to nab user and device data, such as your  mobile provider and user ID. Finally, the app acts as a wide-open  backdoor for your device to quietly download more malicious code.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Mashable Google has just pulled 21 popular free apps from the Android Market. According to the company, the apps are malware aimed at getting root access to the user\u2019s device, gathering a wide range of available data, and downloading more code to it without the user\u2019s knowledge. Although Google has swiftly removed the apps &#8230; <a title=\"L&#8217;androide malato\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2011\/03\/02\/landroide-malato\/\" aria-label=\"Per saperne di pi\u00f9 su L&#8217;androide malato\">Leggi tutto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[50,162],"class_list":["post-24753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-mobile","tag-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24755,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24753\/revisions\/24755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}