You know how armies typically move: first come the scouts to make sure everything is ok. Then the heavy troops arrive; at least that was how it used to be before the age of cyber wars. It turns out, that Trojans behave quite the same way.<\/p>\n
There are a lot of small Trojans for Android capable of leveraging access privileges, in other words \u2014 gaining root access. Our malware analysts Nikita Buchka and Mikhail Kuzin can easily name 11 families of such Trojans. Most of them are almost harmless \u2014 all they did until recently was injecting tons of ads and downloading others of their kind. If you want to know more about them \u2014 our researchers have an article about them on Securelist<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you follow the military analogy \u2014 those are the scouts. As you probably have noticed, gaining root access gives them the capability to download and install applications \u2014 that\u2019s the reason why once one of them get into the system, in a few minutes there are all the others. But our researchers have predicted that these small Trojans would certainly be used to download some really bad malware that can actually harm the owners of the infected devices.<\/p>\n Dangerous trends taking root in #mobile<\/a> phones https:\/\/t.co\/DkLD8KhSuk<\/a> #research<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/wc3NfSSv3Z<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Securelist (@Securelist) August 27, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n