Webopedia Term of the Day: What is DroidDream?

“DroidDream is a mobile botnet type of malware that appeared in
spring 2011. The DroidDream Trojan gained root access to Google
Android mobile devices in order to access unique identification
information for the phone. Once compromised, a DroidDream-infected
phone could also download additional malicious programs without the
user’s knowledge as well as open the phone up to control by
hackers.

DroidDream affected mobile devices running v2.2 (FroYo) and
earlier versions of the Android OS operating system, and entered
phones through the download and installation of one of 50+
third-party applications that were available on Google’s official
Android Market. Google removed the apps from its marketplace and
had to utilize its ‘kill switch’ to remotely wipe Android devices
that had been infected by DroidDream.”

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