{"id":31816,"date":"2011-08-17T10:05:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T08:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=31816"},"modified":"2011-08-17T10:10:25","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T08:10:25","slug":"android-malware-claims-to-be-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/31816-android-malware-claims-to-be-google.html","title":{"rendered":"Android malware claims to be Google+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers at <a title=\"Trend Micro\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/358288-Trend-Micro\">Trend Micro<\/a> has uncovered a new malware application known as ANDRIODOS_NICKISPY.C, which masquerades as Google+ when installed.<\/p>\n<p>Named in the android app list as Google++, the application runs certain services as you boot up the android device, allowing it to record sensitive information that includes your location, phone calls, sms\u2019s, instant messages and call logs. Once recorded, the application sends the info off to a remote site where hackers can presumably access it.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike other malware applications that are available on the Android Marketplace, the Google++ malware has to be downloaded from a website and manually installed onto a device. Removing the malware is also as simple as uninstalling the application from the Manage Applications tab. This has seen Trend Micro classify the malware as low-risk, though Android users should still avoid it.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1009_3-20092993-83\/android-malware-masquerading-as-google-app\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new malware application claiming to be Google+ records calls, instant messages and location<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":31820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[397,167,801,3812],"class_list":["post-31816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-google","tag-malware","tag-trend-micro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31822,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31816\/revisions\/31822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}