This also happens in Android OS more frequently, I believe, as there are random apps capable of snooping data up to system-level and change some of the configurations and voila! Your Android phone is infected! We also know that there are still a lot of people downloading apps that are not from official releases and from the official Playstore in order to get some cracked APKs for their games, apps etc and that is alarming. I almost became a victim of the clipboard hijack thingy just a couple months back by downloading this file manager from a XDA-Developers post (which has since been removed thankfully).


Knowing how Google Play checks every app on their store before getting it live, it's really rare for a malware-infected app to get through. This might be the first one recorded, but I'm pretty sure that there are tons existing out there in the wild.