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Android Malware Records Phone Calls

• nodata 15y ago
  To be fair, this app does explicitly ask for permission to listen to your phone calls, which is a lot more information than the equivalent app would have on a traditional operating system.
  • mrb 15y ago
    No, it asks for RECORD_AUDIO which does not allow recording while calls are in progress. There is even an Android bug open about the inability to record calls: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2117 http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2117 This malware seems to be using an unknown method to record calls. The blog post is so poorly written and so light on details...
    • nodata 15y ago
      So record audio and intercept outgoing calls can't be combined? Hm. Okay.
• mrb 15y ago
  I presume that this malware exploits a root privilege escalation vuln to record phone calls? During installation, this malware asks for the RECORD_AUDIO permission, but AFAIK this permission is not for allowing applications to record phone calls, but merely recording audio when a call is not in progress.