First Android bootkit has infected 350,000 devices

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users about a dangerous Trojan for Android that resides in the memory of infected devices and launches itself early on in the OS loading stage, acting as a bootkit. This allows the Trojan to minimize the possibility that it will be deleted, without tampering with the device's file system. Currently, this malignant program is operating on more than 350,000 mobile devices belonging to users in various countries, including Spain, Italy, Germany, Russia, Brazil, the USA and some Southeast Asian countries.