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Silent, Easily Made Android Rootkit Released At DefCon

Posted by Soulskill on from the it-slices-it-dices dept.

An anonymous reader writes with news that security experts from Spider Labs released a kernel level rootkit for Android devices at DefCon on Friday. "As a proof of concept, it is able to send an attacker a reverse TCP over 3G/WIFI shell upon receiving an incoming call from a 'trigger number.' This ultimately results in full root access on the Android device." The rootkit was developed over a period of two weeks, and has been handed out to DefCon attendees on DVD.

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  1. black people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what is it with black people and the bus stop? anytime you see a bus stop, there is always a black person there.

    i would bet money that if you put a bus stop in the middle of sibera, hundreds of miles from anyone and left it for a few hours, when you return they would be black people in it. stereotypical black people too. there will be one old man holding a bicycle tire on the rim, muttering to himself. there will be a fat black girl on her cellphone talking too loud and shaking her finger while doing the "mmmhmm" thing. lastly there will be a 20-something thug-life wanna-be with bloodshot eyes.

    black people and the bus stop, it's a mystery.