Android is a mobile operating system that often finds himself exposed to serious security problems. For more security mechanisms that are implemented, the “pests” eventually infiltrate the system, making up use of “official component” as the Google Play event, which are part of the Google ecosystem.
This time a group of researchers found that there are 60 Android games on Google Play infected with the trojan Android.Xiny
Altogether there are over 60 games that have been published for about 30 developers different (inc. Conexagon Studio, Color Fun Games, BILLAPPS, among others) and is still currently in the Android application store.
According to a report by Dr.Web’s s company, now identified include games a trojan called Android.Xiny, you can “dump advertising” in the system, receiving commands from cybercriminals and steal information from several devices, such as an operator name, MAC address, operating system version, type of card Memory, IMEI, etc.
Android.Xiny, the Trojan that comes on the images
According to the information of researchers from Dr.Web, this trojan is hidden ( using shorthand techniques) in PNG images, making it difficult immense detection.
Currently, Google has not removed the games that include this plague and there is so far no indication to that effect. The couple of games, also alerted to the existence 13 also infected applications, but with Brain Test malware. That is to say that the Google app store is all “undermined”.
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