Smartphone botnet piggybacks on pirated copies of Angry Birds Space
Unscrupulous developers are once again using the popularity of Rovio’s Angry Birds games to spread malware. Antivirus company SophosLabs has discovered a trojan called Andr/KongFu-L that hides inside a fully functional, pirated version of Angry Birds Space. The company has found the malware in several third-party Android app stores, but the official version of the game in Google Play is not affected.
Once installed, Andr/KongFu-L uses an exploit in the Android 2.3 operating system to gain root access, allowing the trojan to download more malware and hijack the smartphone’s browser.
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