{"id":26316,"date":"2013-06-10T15:47:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T22:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.mcafee.com\/?p=26316"},"modified":"2025-08-11T23:18:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T06:18:25","slug":"obad-a-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-latest-android-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/mobile-security\/obad-a-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-latest-android-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Obad.a \u2013 What You Need to Know About the Latest Android Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the convenience of our mobile apps, we increasingly rely on our phones for work and play.\u00a0 But did you know that those same apps might be leaving you vulnerable to some nasty mobile malware?<\/p>\n

Amongst the worst type of malware, software that damages your computer or mobile, is a Trojan<\/a> Horse program or trojan.\u00a0 Trojans are the most prominent category of threats this year on the mobile threat landscape.\u00a0 Backdoor Trojans are a particularly insidious type of Trojan, because much like their namesake, they disguise themself as useful software to the user and then leave a backdoor open in your system so attackers can get into your data at any time.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a new Backdoor Trojan that targets the Android operating system which McAfee Mobile Security detects via the cloud as an \u201cArtemis\u201d Trojan and on a device as Android\/Obad.A. Other vendors refer to this as Backdoor.AndroidOS.Obad.a. The malware commonly known as \u201cObad,\u201d is one of the most dangerous for your phone yet.<\/p>\n

What You Need to Know<\/h2>\n