Angry Birds Space - Malware Found On This Game

Smartphone users who want to play the game Angry Birds, beware. There is malware that infects Angry Birds Space Games.
The threat was revealed by the experts at Sophos malware detection Lab when they find a problem with infected game Angry Birds Space from Non-official Android Market application. Detection according to Sophos, the game is actually a trojan named André / Kongfu-L. It looks like a full-functional version of Angry Birds Space , but actually using Gingerbread to exploit and get root access to the device, then install malicious code, which will soon infect your device. It's Really dangerous.

"Trojan communicates with a remote site to download and install other malware into the Android smartphone is being violated," he reported to Sophos. "Interestingly, malware hidden charges - in the form of two evil ELF file - at the end of the JPG image file." This may be an old technique used by actors "Cyber criminals" that has been forgotten.

Angry Birds Space - Infected

Sophos said that the malware that infected gamers would be in the hands of "cyber criminals" that can send instructions to download the code preangkat more information or to push a URL to be displayed on the web browser. According to specialists the threat of malware, it will make Android phones to be part of a botnet, under the control of malicious hackers and probably will infect other devices that are air-android platfrom, if related.

Sophos warns the user that should be carefully when download games and other applications from the Android market is not official. users may be tempted by some of the official market applications, but in March the unofficial let it be downloaded by users at any time. you should be suspicious of the unofficial market. so be careful to select non-official android market.