Over a million Android users affected by malicious app

It looks like the first major app attack has hit Android pretty hard. Over one million users reportedly downloaded the malicious app which is designed to steal personal information and report it back to some unknown Chinese website. The malicious app is Jackeey Wallpaper, an app that provides users with wallpaper themes such as My Little Pony and Star Wars. As you can probably tell, the app would have been really popular with young teenagers who have Android phones. It looks like the app only collects phone number, subscriber identifier, and voicemail information. The only official statistic regarding the number of downloads of this app is 1.1 million – 4.6 million. Perhaps we’ll see official word from Google about this malicious app attack because I’m sure it caught everyone who downloaded the app by surprise.

Via [Mobile Beat]