A sophisticated trojan dubbed Gemini is threatening Android devices in China and could spread to devices in other regions, according to a new report issued by the firm Lookout.
The firm claims the trojan may be the most advanced bit of Android malware to date and is the first to display “botnet-like capablities.” That means that once the trojan is installed on an Android Phone, a remote server will be able to access the device and gain a level of control over it.
So far Gemini has been observed grafted onto legitimate apps — primarily games — that are downloaded to Android smartphones by unknowing patrons of third-party Android app stores. The infected apps reportedly then request an abnormal level of access to devices and then, boom, it’s a zombie-phone.
Once a device is infected, Gemini is capable of doing a host of nasty things: sending out user’s location, transmitting device identifiers, and downloading Apps and then prompting the user to install them. It’s also capable of delivering a list of installed apps to an outsider server.
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