Android Malware: DroidDream Light

Thanks to the good folks at Lookout, a mobile security company, they have spotted a new Android malware named DroidDream Light, presumably created by the same developers who created DroidDream. The malware has been identified in over 25 applications and has infected as many as 30,000-120,000 users to date.

How it works is that malicious components of DroidDream Light are activated during incoming voice calls. The broadcast receiver then contacts remote servers and supplies the IMEI, IMSI, Model, SDK Version and information about installed packages.

For future reference, make sure that your downloads come from trusted sources and check for permissions and ad requests, also mobile security apps such as Lookout will come in handy. For the list of affected apps (which have since been removed from the Android Market) check it out after the break.

Magic Photo Studio

• Sexy Girls: Hot Japanese
• Sexy Legs
• Beauty Breasts
• Sex Sound
• Sex Sound: Japanese
• HOT Girls 1-4

Mango Studio

• Floating Image Free
• System Monitor
• Super StopWatch and Timer
• System Info Manager

E.T. Tean

• Call End Vibrate

BeeGoo

• Quick Photo Grid
• Delete Contacts
• Quick Uninstaller
• Contact Master
• Brightness Settings
• Volume Manager
• Super Photo Enhance
• Super Color Flashlight
• Paint Master