Soundminder Android Trojan Hears Credit Cards

Blacklaw writes "A team of security researchers has created a proof-of-concept Trojan for Android handsets that is capable of listening out for credit card numbers — typed or spoken — and relaying them back to the application's creator. Once installed, Soundminder sits in the background and waits for a call to be placed — hence the access to the 'Phone calls' category. When triggered by a call, the application listens out for the user entering credit card information or a PIN and silently records the information, performing the necessary analysis to turn it from a sound recording into a number."

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The iPhone and its "Walled Garden"...

[Chris Tucker]

...App Store starting to look a little better?

Of course, when the latest Android 2.2 phone OS gets pushed to the phones, everything will be better.

Oh, right. The PhoneCos are refusing to push that upgrade .