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New android trojanized adware; 20K+ apps affected...
« on: November 06, 2015, 11:34 AM »
Auto-rooting adware is a worrying development in the Android ecosystem in which malware roots the device automatically after the user installs it, embeds itself as a system application, and becomes nearly impossible to remove.
-Lookout blog post

More at the following link...
https://blog.lookout.com/blog/2015/11/04/trojanized-adware/