New trojan targets image files | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
Increasingly, malware creators are moving from stealing information from text files and key-logging into the audio-visual realm.

 

Recently this has spread to Android phones via a new threat called PlaceRaider, which can secretly take photos or video every few seconds without the owner ever noticing.

 

===> Combined with information from a smartphone’s GPS system and accelerometer sensors, the visual data can be assembled into a three-dimensional map of the phone's surroundings. <===

 

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