In the morning we published for Android Gooligan. If you have any smartphone Android would be good to check if it has been hacked. A new Android malware that has already compromised over 1 million Google accounts and infects around 13.000 devices every day.
They called it Gooligan and can root Android devices to steal email addresses and tokens control identity cards that are stored.
You can read more on our first publication.
Google reportedly issued an official announcement on the issue we published below as we received it:
"Following the your publications for the issue that has arisen regarding the malicious app Goοligan, we send you the official position of Google with the request to include it in your post as well.
"We appreciate its contribution Check Point with which we have worked to understand and address such issues. It is worth emphasizing that in the context of our constant effort to protect them users from the malware "family". Ghost Push, we have taken numerous measures and we are taking protective measures to improve security throughout our ecosystem Android.
In particular, our actions include: the revocation of token Google Accounts of users whose devices have been infected, providing clear instructions to reconnect safely, disabling related applications from infected devices, ongoing development of verification applications, and ongoing improvements of SafetyNet to protect users from these applications in the future and our collaboration with ISPss) to eliminate this malware completely. "
Adrian Ludwig, Director Android Security
