Android malware fakes phone shutdown then steals data

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Next time you turn off your Android phone, you might want take the battery out just to be certain.

Security vendor AVG has spotted a malicious program that fakes the sequence a user sees when they shut off their phone, giving it freedom to move around on the device and steal data.

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Story added 20. February 2015, content source with full text you can find at link above.