Animal Lovers Group Viruses Spread?

After a public outcry and the campaign failed to stop the application developers writing games 'Dog Wars' to stop the development application, a group of protesters took another way in an attempt to stop the development of the game.

They are directly targeting the users of that application to spread their message. From the observation Symantec, a backdoor code buried in one of the older version of the Dog Wars Beta version 0981 that can still be found circulating in the warez sites. Version of the game itself is not found on the official website of the Android Market.

"If the user agrees to permit, including sending an SMS, the direct application installed. Once completed, the icon of the application was almost identical to the actual application, on the sail 3 to 3.5 inches, "said Irfan Asrar, an analyst from Symantec Security Response, August 23, 2011.

This application, said Irfan, very similar and indistinguishable. However, if the user more closely, the application's icon that contains a trojan named Android.Dogowar it uses a logo that read PETA, not the BETA.

Internally, the trojan code that is injected as a package called 'Dogbite' and once infected, it will run in the background service named 'Rabies' which will run the main functionality of the application.

After he worked, the program will send text messages to anyone in the device's contact list with the message: "I enjoy hurting small animals, I think you should know that." The next action of the application was sending an SMS to 73822 with the message 'text '.

Fortunately, so far trojan that runs only on devices that operate in the United States. SMS messages are sent as a last attempt to register the phone to a service that was held by animal lover organization, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

Although many clues left behind, Irfan estimates, there is no reason to believe that PETA is an actor who is behind the trojans. "Chances are, this is a work of someone who is trying to link this with the MAP apliasi or to gain the sympathy of the institution," he said.

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