How Hackers Can Turn Your Android Into A SpyPhone

LAS VEGAS — All a relatively skilled hacker needs to do to turn an Android smartphone into a powerful surveillance machine — a so-called SpyPhone — is to copy and paste some malicious code into an innocuous-looking app like Angry Birds, and then get the phone owner to install it

Once that's done, he will be able to surreptitiously track the phone's location, read texts, emails, take pictures, record video or audio, and monitor pretty much everything the phone does. In other words, the hacker now has full remote control of the phone.

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