Phishing App Makes Its Way Onto the Android Marketplace
Phishing App Makes Its Way Onto the Android Marketplace
Posted 01/11/2010 at 2:27pm
| by Bart Salisbury
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There’s a big demand for Android apps, spurned by the sudden, and welcomed, influx of Android devices in the mobile marketplace. But you’d still think that the vetting of these apps was more cautious than this: an app, intended to harvest bank login details was approved for the Android Marketplace.
According to The Register, the “rogue” Android app passed itself off as a legitimate banking applet for the credit union First Tech. First Tech, however, has no such Android app. Instead, a users banking information would be captured and forwarded on to somewhere it didn’t belong. First Tech has posted a warning to users, and reports that, so far, no attempts have been made against it.
The app was built by Droid09. The app has been dropped. The Android Marketplace is advising it be deleted. And Droid09 has been banned from the Marketplace.
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naxself
January 11, 2010 at 10:59pm
"There’s a big demand for Android apps, spurned by the sudden, and welcomed, influx of Android devices in the mobile marketplace."
You know that "spurn" and "spur" are two wildly different words, right?
I Jedi
January 11, 2010 at 2:44pm
I wonder if this is the first recorded incident of such an application being created for the Android OS? Either way, guys, we are now cool enough to be targeted by ill-legitimate people... WOOT! ANDROID IS NOW EVEN MORE POPULAR!
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