Oh the joys of having everything interconnected....

[ProblemAgain]

Creepy Android malware jumps from your phone to your PC

A new and frightening form of Android malware travels from the phone to a PC, where it can then open files on a computer, as well as collect information from contacts and gather photos among other invasive actions.

"We have come across PC malware that infects mobile devices before. However, in this case it's the other way round: an app that runs on a mobile device (a smartphone) is designed to infect PCs," writes Victor Chebyshev, Kaspersky Lab expert, on the company's Securelist blog.

Two Android apps, Superclean and "a twin brother," DroidCleaner, bill themselves as apps that can free up memory on phones, in turn helping them to run faster. They don't do that at all. Instead, once a user syncs his or her phone with a PC, say to update a music playlist, or for any reason, the malware is installed on the PC, and can infect workstations, Chebyshev says.

The malware, considered a bot, includes these features:

• Sending SMS messages without your approval.
• Enabling Wi-Fi.
• Gathering information about the device.
• Opening arbitrary links in a Web browser.
• Uploading the phone's SD card’s entire contents.
• Uploading an arbitrary file (or folder) to the server of the person or group behind the malware.
• Uploading all SMS messages.
• Deleting all SMS messages.
• Uploading all the contacts/photos/coordinates from the device to the person or group behind the malware.

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/creepy-android-malware-...

[frenchy]

man this makes me glad i don't have a cell phone .. i guess with all the younger folks movin away from desktops and even laptops and more towards i phones and androids and tablets it was inevitable the guys writin the viruses would migrate that way too..