Zombies and Angry Birds attack

 

Zombies are running rampant and wreaking havoc in China. These zombies are cell phone viruses that constantly send out text messages. According to InformationWeek, hackers have hijacked over 1 million smartphones with zombie viruses and are costing Chinese citizens over $300,000 daily. The trojan hides in a fake anti-virus app that sends the phone's SIM card information to cybercrooks. Then the hackers take over the phone to spam text messages to the listed contacts.

 

 

Popular games and other tempting apps are often used to spread trojans. The Angry Birds mobile game is a all the rage right now, so a free expansion pack for the game would likely also be downloaded millions of times. Scio Security researcher Jon Oberheide released Angry Birds Bonus Levels for Android phones in the Google online app store last week. After the app was downloaded, three more apps were "secretly" installed that could have allowed malicious activity if active malware had truly been a part of the download. Instead, this was to show flaws in the mobile framework and how apps can be downloaded without the user's knowledge. According to The Last Watchdog, Oberheide's fake app was a white hat proof-of-concept exploit that lasted only about six hours before Google removed it. Google then sent out a security fix for the flaw.

 

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