“More than a million Android smartphones are mining cryptocoins without the owners’ knowledge, via apps downloaded from Google Play which stealthily incorporate ‘hashing’ software. Researchers at security company Trend Micro say they have found at least two apps on the Google Play store, Songs and ‘Prized’, which contain code to join any phone that has them to a cryptocoin-mining ‘pool’. Each app has had between 1m and 5m downloads, meaning that up to 10m phones might be affected. The company also discovered bitcoin-mining code hidden in repackaged versions of Football Manager Handheld and TuneIn Radio outside Google Play.”
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/27/android-bitcoin-dogecoin-mining-malware
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