New Android Trojan Fakes Device Shut Down, Spies On Users

An anonymous reader writes A new Android Trojan that tricks users into believing they have shut their device down while it continues working, and is able to silently make calls, send messages, take photos and perform many other tasks, has been discovered and analyzed by AVG researchers. They dubbed it, and AVG's security solutions detect it as PowerOffHijack.

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This is why.....

[TheCarp]

If you really need privacy, you pull the phone battery....and if you might need privacy, you don't buy a phone that can't have its battery pulled.

Not really any solutions, as long as people are walking around with what amount to wireless microphones in their pockets this will always be a potetial problem.

Re:This is why.....

[Iamthecheese]

Requiring an action as inconvenient as partially dismantling the device in order to not experience undesired operation is a piss-poor design.