One of the best 3rd party Android Mobile Keyboard called 'SwiftKey' turned into a Keylogger Trojan by an Android developer to show the possible security threat of downloading pirated cracked apps from non-official App Stores and websites , "anyone pirating Swiftkey is taking a serious risk" developer said.
He demonstrated
how to inject a Keylogger snippets of code into a legitimate Android
Keyboard application that infected a mobile device with Trojan,
connected with a remote server and transmitted data from the
device inducing your all key logs.
Android apps are coded in Java and compiled to byte code that is
run on the Dalvik VM and this byte code is not that hard to edit and
insert back into an APK." he explained.
He developed a keylogger from SwiftKey(APK Download), a malicious Java program designed to collect and send all key logs to a remote server (Check Keylogs) Along with the host IP address. He explained the complete code also on his blog.
Android malware is growing at a far more rapid pace than for other
mobile platforms. For a Cyber Criminals, it is not important to develop
their own malware program from scratch, Reversing ready-mate apps
and inserting malware code can easily make their job more easy.
Be careful from where you are downloading apps and think about the permissions and consider what the app is asking to do, and
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