Around 80 wallpaper apps in the Android Marketplace were found to be sending back data to remote services, according to security firm Lookout According to Lookout, a US-based security firm, more than 80 Google Android wallpaper apps were collecting mobile phone numbers and personal details, including unique subscriber numbers. Many of the apps also “dialled home” to their developers, transmitting unencrypted sensitive data back to remote servers.
One such app, called Jackeey Wallpaper, was downloaded millions of times, and sent data back to China, according to Kevin MaHaffey, Lookout’s chief technology officer. The company presented its findings at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas earlier this week.
New Google Maps tool allows mobile phone users to share location with friendsThe Jackeey Wallpaper app provided themed Star Wars and My Little Pony wallpaper, said Lookout, but it also collected information about the user’s phone number, unique identifier and voicemail number, before beaming back this data to a server in China. However, Lookout stressed that there was no evidence that this data had been collected or used for malicious purposes.
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Source: telegraph.co.uk
By: Claudine Beaumont
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