One MEEELLION users download Facebook-pwning droid game Threat researchers at security vendor ESET say a malicious Facebook-creds-stealing trojan masquerading as an Android game has been downloaded up to a million times. ESET chap Robert Lipovsky says the Cowboy Adventure game, and another also malicious game dubbed Jump Chess, has been since removed from Google's Play code bazaar …
"The VXers were smart to use the Mono framework as it allowed them to evade analysis and set a location-based trigger to deactivate the malicious features and avoid antivirus detection."
Do what now? What part of the Mono framework has suddenly become a virus writer's wet dream to allow their malware to evade analysis?
I had Navfree which changed itself to Navmii when it updated. Now it seems to be pushing malicious adverts* so I've uninstalled it. Anybody know of good Sat Nav, I don't mind paying for one if it works well.
*I had a pop-up saying that my phone had been selected for a prize. Well duh, I don't think so.
If you want something that works offline, I like Co-pilot.
Works well and has sanely priced maps with free updates.
To be honest though, Google is what I use day to day and just use Co-pilot abroad if I'd otherwise be paying for roaming data.
I've seen that game before. It's an example game project included with the .NET game development SDK - Microsoft XNA Framework - which had exactly two levels. They don't appear to have made any changes whatsoever to the original sample, so it looks like they've just added malware, wrapped it for Android consumption and shipped it.
Edit: I looked it up, this ought to look familiar: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/davrous/archive/2011/09/09/html5-platformer-the-complete-port-of-the-xna-game-to-lt-canvas-gt-with-easeljs.aspx - seems you can easily add new levels too via a simple text based map formatting.
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