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> Android Wallpaper Apps Hide Bitcoin Mining Malware

[SOURCE] Infosecurity Magazine [DATE: 25/04/2014 18:41] [LANGUAGE: EN]
Is your smartphone running low on battery for seemingly no reason? Are things taking longer to render or load? Your gadget could be secretly mining bitcoins, thanks to a piece of mobile malware in Google Play that quietly uses an Android phone’s processing power, while hiding behind innocuous-seeming wallpaper apps.
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