Mobile app outsmarts humans in Android phones

Aug. 13, 2010 - PRLog -- Developers design mobile apps  with a vision so as to assist human beings in every sphere of life, be it utility, entertainment, networking or any other. But, have you ever heard a mobile app outsmarting humans? Believe it has happened, a Movie Player app sending costly text messages without the knowledge of the user.

Mobile security firm Lookout warned that a booby-trapped Movie Player app is infecting Android phones in Russia with a virus that sends costly text messages.

Russia based Kaspersky Lab discovered the malicious “Trojan” code hidden in a media player app people are enticed to download onto smartphones. The new malicious program penetrates smartphones running Android in the guise of a harmless media player app.

The Trojan uses the system to begin sending SMSs to premium rate numbers without the owner's knowledge or consent, resulting in money passing from a user's account to that of cyber criminals. The Trojan has apparently only affected handsets operating on Google-backed Android software in Russia.

The Media player program at times does ask users to authorize “services that cost you money” prior to installation, according to Lookout, which advised people to protect themselves by refusing to grant such permission.

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