DroidCleaner, A New Malware, Discovered for Android Users

“A recently discovered new form of Android malware called DroidCleaner can not only infect your smartphone, but also targets your PC to spy on you.

Researchers at the security firm Kaspersky Labs have uncovered new malware which poses as a “cleaner” app — or an app used to free memory on Google’s OS — in the Google Play app store. Once an Android user downloads the app, the malware infects the users smartphone and can also be uploaded to the users PC if they plug the device into their Windows computer in the USB drive mode.

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While the malware that attacks the smartphone is more sophisticated than the malware that infects the PC, according to Kaspersky, the primary function of the malware that installs on the computer is pretty invasive….”

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