We recently learned that a fraudster developed a rogue Android Smartphone app. It creates a shell of mobile banking apps that tries to gain access to a consumer’s financial information.
Droid09 launched this phishing attack from the Android Marketplace and it’s since been removed. It’s called phishing because scammers go fishing for information about you or your financial account that may be used for identity theft.
Please note that this attack didn’t target First Tech accounts. Accessing your First Tech account from your phone’s web browser is completely secure.
If you did download the Droid09 app, please remove it from your phone and take it to your mobile provider to ensure it’s completely removed.
As a reminder, we don’t currently have an app for the Android phone.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: iDon’t have security. You want to bank on-to-go? Use a real iPhone and App Store. Painfully naive Google is in way, way over its head.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “dd” for the heads up.]
@gzero, If “security through obscurity” is indeed the case, soon MS will be able to claim the most secure mobile network.
“fraudster”? Cutester word. Google trying to be touchyfeely about being idiots.
RoughlyDrafted predicted this would happen [url=”http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/08/29/googles-android-market-guarantees-problems-for-users/2/
“]back in August of 2008[/url]:
It is simply criminally negligent for Google to design a smartphone software platform with nearly zero regard for the safety of its users. We can justifiably criticize Microsoft for its lax stance on security in the 90s that resulted in the Windows malware crisis, but many of the potential dangers of certain decisions weren’t fully recognized back then. Google is organizing an olympic-sized skating party on a lake it knows has dangerously thin ice.
Yikes, MDN borked my markup… here’s the link by itself: http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/08/29/googles-android-market-guarantees-problems-for-users/2/
Once again, funny how “security through obscurity” only seems to work for the not-so-obscure Apple platforms and not for many other much more obscure platforms.
Hey all you little Fraudsters, GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!!!
“I wonder how many malicious apps Apple has blocked in the approval process.”
Very few. What’s the point of submitting a malicious app when you know it won’t pass?
@bond co. stooge
Post of the day! lol
Yes, Google Android is open. Very open even malware, spyware, virus and etc also allow. That’s why so many hackers love Google Android and they are Fandroid and they hate Apple so much. Because Apple always protect their users being attack by Hackers to take their information. Most you read in comments that love Google Android and Hate Apple mostly are Hackers.