{"id":4208,"date":"2016-12-02T18:57:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T16:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kodingtech.com\/?p=4208"},"modified":"2016-12-02T18:57:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T16:57:12","slug":"one-million-google-accounts-compromised-by-gooligan-android-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kodingtech.com\/en\/milion-de-conturi-google-compromise-de-gooligan-malware-android\/","title":{"rendered":"One million Google accounts compromised by Gooligan, an Android malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at security firm Check Point Software Technologies have discovered a family of Android malware that has already compromised over 1 million Google accounts, hundreds of them associated with enterprise users.<br \/>\nGooligan, as this malware was called, was discovered in at least 86 apps available on third-party marketplaces. Once installed, Gooligan initiates a root process of the operating system to gain privileged access to Android devices running versions 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean, KitKat) and 5 (Lollipop) of the operating system. That is approximately <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/about\/dashboards\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">74 percent of users<\/a>.<br \/>\nAffected phones or tablets then download software that steals the authentication keys that allow the phone to connect to the user&#039;s Google accounts \u2013 such as Gmail, Google Photos, Google Docs, Google Play, Google Drive.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4211 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kodingtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/info_3_REVISED_11.29-Copy-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"How does gooligan attack malware work that gains access to Android devices and accesses Gmail, Google, Photos, Google Docs, Play, Drive, recommendation to check applications shared by Koding \" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><br \/>\nCheck Point company published <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.checkpoint.com\/2016\/11\/30\/1-million-google-accounts-breached-gooligan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">here<\/a> a list of infected applications.<br \/>\nGoogle also recommends enabling the app verification service, available in the Android operating system:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4214 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kodingtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Protect_against_harmful_apps_-_Accounts_Help_-_2016-12-02_18.47.35.png\" alt=\"App verification \" width=\"736\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cercet\u0103torii companiei de securitate Check Point Software Technologies au descoperit o familie de malware Android care a compromis deja peste 1 milion de conturi Google, sute din ele asociate unor utilizatori enterprise. Gooligan, cum a fost denumit acest malware, a fost descoperit in cel pu\u021bin 86 de aplica\u021bii disponibile pe magazine de tip marketplace ter\u021be. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servicii-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kodingtech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kodingtech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kodingtech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kodingtech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kodingtech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kodingtech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kodingtech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kodingtech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kodingtech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}