Sometimes aspiring Pokemon masters want that extra edge to their game and go looking for guides on how to play the game better. Looking in the Google Play Store may have led the players astray as one guide was secretly malware. Kaspersky was able to detect a trojan inside the app but said that multiple defenses made it difficult to reverse engineer to see how it fully works. One defense is that it delays any bad activity by two hours to try to thwart those who are trying to see what it can do. It also doesn’t do anything bad until it receives a respond from the server that is calling the shots. Once its determined its a desireable victim, it downloads files to attempt to root the phone and then grant itself root access. The Play Store reports half a million installs but Kaspersky claims they have only confirmed 6,000 infections live right now. Luckily the worst thing the app has done so far is install its own ads to make money.<\/p>\n
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The hacker may continue to publish under other psuedonyms for the next big gaming craze that might hit app stores. It is also worrying that hackers are trying to implement anti-virtual machine technology making it harder to create a testing environment that you can reset if things go wrong.<\/p>\n
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