Posté par: igor51 le juillet 16, 2012, 22:00:34
It's not every day that you get a security story that involves Yahoo, Google and Microsoft, but that's what has happened with the claims from a Microsoft official that there was an Android-based botnet in existence sending spam from compromised devices. Now it seems that the spam emanating from Android phones may be the result of a bug the Yahoo Mail app that enables attackers to sniff traffic and compromise users' accounts.
Source: Traffic Sniffing, Not Botnet, May Have Led to Android Spam Run (http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/traffic-sniffing-not-botnet-may-have-led-android-spam-run-071612)