On August 9th, Kaspersky Labs discovered the first seriously malicious trojan application for the Google Android platform. It’s named “Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a” and disguise itself as legit Android application in form of a media player.

This, again shows how important it is to have some sort of control of the applications allowed onto a consumer device that is so heavily relied on as a phone is.

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The day we have been waiting for is finally here. Someone published malware in an appstore, and to no surprise it was published to the Android Marketplace.  Norwegian newspaper Digi.no has written/translated an article form The Register about an phishing application written to hijack your banking account information.

This was bound to happen, and this is whythere is such a strict regime to submit applications into appstores like the Apple AppStore and the Windows Phone Marketplace.

Today’s smartphones are trusted devices and the general public does not yet think of their mobile phone as a device that needs antivirus, firewall and malware detection software. But as long as there are vendor solutions like the Android Marketplace; where there is no quality control and no reviewing of applications except for the user feedback from those who already have been fooled by such applications i think things will get a lot worse before it gets better. Continue Reading