A lot of apps from the Android-Market were determinted to subscribe premium services, if the smartphone user was in China. The evil apps send automaticly SMS messages which subscribe a premium service.
The user wouldn't notice that because this evil app will delete the text message before he is going to read it.
Affected are the following: Match, 3D Cube horror terrible, ShakeBanger, Shake Break, Sea Ball, iMine, iCalendar, LoveBaby, iCartoon and iBook.
Google has reacted and deleted those apps from the market.
This wasn't the first time when Google deleted apps from their market. Last March they deleted 50apps from their store.
13 comments:
Thats evil already, though I find it kinda funny malware exists also on mobile phones. I wasn't aware of that.
Not good! :/
wow thanks for letting us know. i had no idea :0
Evil scriptkids, thanks for letting me know
The apple app store is definitely safer.
thanks for the warning!
eeeek glad I have an iPhone right about now
Wow, this almost makes me glad I have a crappy phone instead of an android. Not really though.
Fuuu, i dont own a fancy phone and im starting to think i never will.
Dont knew there are so many malwares out there for phones already :/
FFS, I love my droid and now I have to watch out for this kind of stuff..
oh thats sad...
Guess there is some upside to Apple controlling what apps are allowed on their devices.
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