New Android trojan can record your phone calls

A new bit of Android malware has popped onto security experts’ radar, and this particular trojan can record your phone calls.

Security researchers at CA Technologies have posted their findings about the new trojan. In a blog post, mobile malware specialist Dinesh Venkatesan wrote that the Android package can record phone calls the victim makes as .amr files; the .amr files are then stored to the mobile device’s SD card.

“Once the malware is installed in the victim device, it drops a ‘configuration’ file that contains key information about the remote server,” Venkatesan wrote on the CA blog, indicating that the recorded calls would be uploaded to a server for later access by the hackers behind the malware. Venkatesan noted that the trojan displays “many other malicious activities that we have seen in many of the earlier malware incidents targeted for Android platform.”