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Android warning: 200,000 smartphones contain dangerous malware - is your device affected?

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From Samsung to Google, Android smartphones are some of the most popular handheld devices around the world. But if you use an Android, a new report may raise some alarm bells for you.

Researchers from Secure-D have warned that 200,000 Android smartphones have been found to contain dangerous malware, called Triada.

In a blog about the findings, the researchers explained: “Triada is a well-known and extensively investigated malware that acts as a software backdoor and malware downloader.

It installs a trojan (a piece of malicious code designed to look normal) known as “xHelper” onto compromised devices. “It uses top-level device privileges to execute arbitrary malicious code after receiving instructions from a remote command and control

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