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Researchers find new malware in Android Ice Cream Sandwich

posted onJuly 3, 2012
by l33tdawg

A research team at North Carolina State University led by Professor Xuxian Jiang recently announced that a security flaw in Android Version 4.0.4 and below could exploited by a rootkit with relative ease, according to an official university research blog post.

Like most Android malware, the rootkit can be distributed as a malicious app, opening up a host of potential vulnerabilities on any device on which it is installed. However, it functions in a different way.

Instead of directly attacking the operating system kernel, blog author Matt Shipman wrote, the rootkit approach targets a flaw in the Android framework -- creating a host of possibilities for a hacker. "This would be a more sophisticated type of attack than we've seen before, specifically tailored to smartphone platforms," said Jiang. "The rootkit was not that difficult to develop, and no existing mobile security software is able to detect it."

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