alt Hacker NewsMalware is more easily spread onto rooted phone, that's for sure.
From they you can keylog. Highjack input listeners, basically do anything you want.
Malware is more easily spread onto rooted phone, that's for sure.
From they you can keylog. Highjack input listeners, basically do anything you want.
That's what a malware can do on a rooted phone, _once it gets root access_, but that doesn't mean a rooted phone is easier for malware to attack.
There's not even that many people using rooted phones, and many are tech savvy people that are generally a bit more careful, so even if a rooted phone gets infected by some malware chances are the malware won't even be written in such a way to try to obtain root permissions through the standard procedure and exploit it.