Watch out! Trojans such as ' Angry Birds Rio Unlock "will be attacking and targeting Android

Carefully make your game for lovers of Angry Birds. Name of a game that was popular and has already been downloaded 200 million times a lot of this seems to give inspiration to the makers of malware to infect the Android operating system is widely used in various brands of smartphones.

Watch out! Trojans such as ' Angry Birds Rio Unlock' will be attacking and targeting Android

As is known, Rovio who created this game usually give a free version that can be downloaded from the Android Market. However, the number permianan hanyaterbatas first level and if users are interested to play more levels again he must pay in order to continue the game to the next level.

This is where the malware authors saw a gap and act by making an application with name "Angry Birds Rio Unlock" which promises to unlock all the hidden levels in the game Angry Birds Rio. The name of the trojan malware types are named according to a recent version of the game is released "Angry Birds Rio".

According to the monitoring of Vaksincom virusICU until recently, downloaders "Angry Rio Unlock birds" are now reaching more than 400,000 times. So mean a potential victim of this malware with the code Android.Plankton already achieve the 400,000 users of Android.

If you agree, then apart from getting hidden levels Angry Birds Rio, you'll also get "bonus" Trojan Android.Plankton who will do a lot of things that are harmful, especially if your Android device to have access to cellular service providers.

The Trojans will take over your mobile phone and send SMS spam to a premium number that will drain pulse. Trojans also will download other applications without the knowledge of the owner of the device. Trojans also will mengirmkan deviceID data, version SDK (Software Development Kit) and information about the permissions of a file to a server that has been provided trojan maker.

So once infected with this trojan, your Android device will be vulnerable to other malware infections. Currently, two applications detected downloaded by the "plankton_v0.0.3.jar" and "plankton_v.0.0.4.jar". The second action of this plankton is he going to standby to receive and execute commands sent from the control center of malware.

Beginning June 2011, malware that target the Android looks begin to breed. Logically this is a matter of time, because malware authors will try to attack the most popular OS. Currently, most malware was still attacking the Windows OS, but seeing the popularity of Android, malware authors seem to be tempted to attack this OS.

Android.Plankton was found on June 9, 2011 by a team of analysts Dr Web and directly incorporated into the definition of Dr Web for Android. Antimalware for Dr Web for Android smartphones available in 2 versions, the first version of Dr. Web for Android Lite can be downloaded for free from Android Market and the paid version with the name of Dr Web for Android Anti-virus + Anti-Spam which has additional functionality to protect users Android from both of SMS SPAM and Tele Marketing.

The good news, if you buy Dr Web Antivirus for Windows, Linux or Mac you can get the Dr Web for Android Anti-virus + Anti-Spam for free. Or conversely, if you buy Dr Web for Android Anti-virus + Anti-Spam, then you will get a free Dr Web for Windows, Linux or Mac for a workstation (non server).