A New Malware Has Been Found To Infect Phones While They’re Connected To PCs

From Android Headline New – Patrick Northcraft

We all at one point or another, have connected our phones to our computers to transfer a file, to root our devices, or to simply browse our system in a manner we are used to seeing.  People, myself included, view this way as the most secure way of transferring files, especially since we have the hardware right in front of us as opposed to the modern cloud methods.  However, a recent piece of malware has been uncovered that tries to infect our Android devices that connect to an infected Windows PC.  This Trojan attempts to install mobile banking malware, and acts in reverse to what we have seen before.  We have known about Android malware that attempts to infect Windows systems when an infected Android device connects to the PC.

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