!BE WARNED! 'sophisticated' Android Malware Hits Phones

Hundreds of thousands of Android
phones have been infected with
malware that uses handsets to send
spam and buy event tickets in bulk. Mobile security firm Lookout said the virus,
called NotCompatible, was the most
sophisticated it had seen. The cyberthieves behind it had recently
rewritten its core code to make it harder to
defeat, it said. Mobile malware aimed at smartphones is
steadily getting more complex, said security
company Wandera. Jeremy Linden, a security analyst at Lookout,
said: "The group behind NotCompatible are
operating on a different plane to the typical
mobile malware maker." Victims for rent Usually, he said, mobile malware campaigns
lasted only a couple of weeks but the
NotCompatible creators had been operating for
more than two years. The bug first appeared in 2012 and was now
on its third iteration, he said, adding that the
latest version had been rewritten recently and
was now as sophisticated as the malware
aimed at desktop computers. so watch that download.