In the morning we published for Android Gooligan. If you have an Android smartphone it would be a good idea to check if it has been jailbroken. A new malicious software Android that has already compromised over 1 million Google accounts and infects around 13.000 devices every day.
They called it Gooligan and can root on Android devices devices to steal the email addresses and authentication IDs 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 together to understand and deal with such issues. It is worth highlighting that in our ongoing effort to protect users from the "family" of malware 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 (settings) of the Google accounts of users whose devices are infected, providing clear instructions to safely sign in again, disabling related apps from infected devices, continuous development of verification apps, and continuous improvements of SafetyNet to protect users from these applications in the future and our cooperation with Internet service providers (ISPs) to eliminate this malware completely. "
Adrian Ludwig, Director Android Security
