“Hoping to understand what a new generation of mobile malware could resemble, security researchers will demonstrate a malicious “rootkit” program they’ve written for Google’s Android phone next month at the Defcon hacking conference in Las Vegas.”
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/060210-android-rootkit-is-just-a.html
This is just another reason I have mixed feelings over how Apple handles apps with the app store.
Yeah, it means I can’t run whatever I want, and have to play by their rules without jailbreaking, but it sure makes rootkits a bit harder to pull off.