Android Bug Allows Hackers Read Victim’s Email And Text Messages Without A Clue That He Is!!!

Security Experts Nicholas Percoco [Spider Labs] and his colleague, released a tool at the Defcon hacker’s conference in Las Vegas on Friday, that lets the hackers/person using the tool to steal very personal information from Android devices, including victim’s email and text messages, without a clue that anything is actually happening.

The developers said that it is a root-kit tool that exploits the security bug in Google’s Android platform and lets off total control over Android devices to the developer on the other end, thus granting him free & clueless access to information on the smartphones.

Hear what they say:

“It wasn’t difficult to build … it took about two weeks to build it [malicious software]. We could be doing what we want to do and there is no clue that we are there,” alerted Nicholas Percoco, head of Spider Labs.

The tests and demonstrations were carried on HTC Legend and HTC Desire Android-based smartphones, and as the developers say, it is pretty much possible to get things done on any other Android phone too. Even more alarming is the fact that the tool was released on DVD to about 10,000 hackers and security experts attending the conference.

Organizers of the conference say presenters release tools such as Percoco’s root kit to pressure manufacturers to fix bugs.

But it looks like the matter has gone off hands already. HTC and others, come on man, so something, quick!

[I'm sorry about the typo or errors in this article, that was a real quick message to all. Share it, bring the pressure on the manufacturers to deliver a quick fix to the bug. Thanks - Mark!]