Windows Mobile game infected with Trojan

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» 02 June 2010

Windows Mobile game infected with Trojan

Users will be very much astonished once they stumble upon the malicious content slipped within the downloadable mobile game. Based on the latest reports, the individuals involved in the scamming activity infected the altered duplicates of the popular Windows Mobile game in order to trick their victims.

Infections can really be very disturbing

According to the statements that have been made, the attackers made certain adjustments on the sample version of the game “3D Anti-Terrorist Action” and these consisted of insertion of a Trojan infection into the file. This infection operates in such a way that it can modify the premium-rate call that costs about 6 US dollars per minute.

Paying a certain amount of cash can be bad

The game, which was manipulated by the vicious crooks, is something along the line of Counter Strike; hence, it was named as “3D Anti-Terrorist Action”. The goal of this exploitation is to make plenty of calls on the premium-rate phone numbers located in places such as the Antarctic, the Dominican Republic, and Somalia. And in the end, the users will be nothing but surprised when they see that they are required to pay quite large amount of money as listed on their phone bills.

Trojan infection linked with games keeps on spreading

The type of malicious software that was detected to be incorporated within the said game was a Terdial-A Windows-CE Trojan. This was primarily spotted in the month of March but it only just continued to weave its way into various websites. Now, the Trojan infection has been found creeping into the websites that holds different Windows mobile applications. In addition, new words of caution were sent from the popular site that hosts games, the “gamepron.com”. Also, editions of the genuine applications were added even though they were short of attractive style of game play.

In order to broadcast this newly-found tactic, Sophos created a new blog post wherein screenshots of the mobile application and some of the contents found within the webmail of the victim from UK were included. The security firm supposed that the presenter who speaks in Russian was also the one that initiated the malware attack.

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