The latest attack is a so-called Trojan horse, code used to swipe information from compromised PCs, named Myfip.

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Mr Hurst said his computer had been hacked by a "Trojan horse" - a programme in which harmful code is contained inside apparently harmless data and allows a third party access to email exchanges.

BBC: Christopher Jefferies

Android has been the favorite of malicious code writers since August 2010, when the first Trojan program targeting the OS was detected.

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