Liviu Iftode and Vinod Ganapathy, two researchers at Rutgers University, have revealed some experiments they have been conducting, showing how rootkits could be used to take control of smartphones.
The scientists have shown that a malicious attacker could cause a smartphone to “eavesdrop on a meeting, track its owner’s travels, or rapidly drain its battery to render the phone useless”.
Watch the following YouTube video to learn more:
It’s a cute little video, but how realistic is this threat in reality?
I don’t think the kind of attack described by Iftode and Ganapathy is a big deal right now.
Yes, it is possible to change or put software onto…
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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