Is your smartphone running low on battery for seemingly no reason? Are things taking longer to render or load? Your gadget could be secretly mining bitcoins, thanks to a piece of mobile malware in Google Play that quietly uses an Android phone’s processing power, while hiding behind innocuous-seeming wallpaper apps.


https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/android-wallpaper-apps-hide-bitcoin-mining-malware/
Is your smartphone running low on battery for seemingly no reason? Are things taking longer to render or load? Your gadget could be secretly mining bitcoins, thanks to a piece of mobile malware in Google Play that quietly uses an Android phone’s processing power, while hiding behind innocuous-seeming wallpaper apps.
Fri, 25 Apr 2014 18:41:00 GMT
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/android-wallpaper-apps-hide-bitcoin-mining-malware/

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