wraggster
April 23rd, 2012, 20:52
TapLogger, a proof-of-concept Trojan for Android developed by resarchers at Pennsylvania State University and IBM, uses infrormation from the phone's motion sensor (http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/android-motion-capture-trojan-74270) to deduce what keys the user has tapped (http://www.cse.psu.edu/~szhu/papers/taplogger.pdf) (PDF), thus revealing otherwise-hidden information such as passwords and PINs.
http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/04/23/1836201/proof-of-concept-android-trojan-uses-motion-sensors-to-steal-passwords
http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/04/23/1836201/proof-of-concept-android-trojan-uses-motion-sensors-to-steal-passwords