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Malicious cloned games dumped from Android Market

article published on 14 December, 2011

Google purges apps that sent premium SMS messages with victims handsets. Google has removed several cloned games uploaded by developer Logastrod that included malicious code. Logastrod used popular gaming titles in the attack, presenting them as free downloads from the Android Market. In reality, when a user downloaded them to an Android device, they started sending SMS messages to ... [ read the full article ]

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fintannl
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_ 		14. December 2011 @ 14:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
any olk with tablets don't understand the permissions they are giving away. So it is hardly surprising that people take advantage of that
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