Security researcher creates botnet for Android, tricks 300 users to download the app.
" a pair of Android apps written by security researcher Jon Oberheide to demonstrate a method of creating a "botnet" of hijacked phones. By cloaking an application capable of "fetching" new exploit code at will in a fake application offering preview pictures of the upcoming "Twilight Eclipse" film, he tricked more than 300 users into downloading the software. The lesson: a less friendly developer could have used that bait and switch to plant malware on users' devices."
"if Oberheide hadn't presented his research at the SummerCon hacker conference there's no reason to believe that Google would have been aware of the darker side of these applications in the first place."
"Interestingly, rolling over the image reveals a box that says it has a "720p screen," which would be crazy -- especially since the Droid X prototype we played with had what looked to be the same 854 x 480 resolution as the original Droid, although we couldn't confirm it at the time. A true 720p screen res would also be far denser than the 800 x 480 panel on the EVO 4G, so we're thinking Verizon actually means 720p out over HDMI, not anything else."
"Update: We just confirmed that the Droid X prototype we saw had an 854 x 480 display"
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