Super 130,000 game by mobile phone Trojan tamper infected users nearly 200 million people

Fruit Ninja, plant vs Zombies, Temple escape ... In your Android phone, you may also have these games installed, but be careful, the installation is likely to be tampered with the mobile phone, the implantation of malicious deduction, privacy theft code version.

Today, the 360 Security Center released the industry's first "Android Phone game security Status Report", the report said: 2012 Year and January 2013, February, 360 mobile phone guards to intercept the camouflage, tamper with the Android game of the mobile phone Trojan and malware (hereinafter referred to as: Game Trojans), Malicious advertising plug-ins A total of 134,927, infected users nearly 200 million people.

Among them, 57% of the game Trojan will be installed to the mobile phone after the user to push ads, background download software consumption users online traffic behavior, 26% of the existence of the background to send SMS malicious deduction fee behavior, 14% will collect, upload user privacy, 2% system damage and other malicious acts.

Data show that third-party application store, the forum is the current game Trojan main transmission path, another 23.4% exist in parallel mobile phone ROM brush package, and the popular two-dimensional code, short URL is also becoming a hotbed of game Trojan, there are 16.5% of mobile Trojans to disguise the spread.

At the same time, the 360 Security Center also found that a large number of Android phone games exist in the non-functional need to invoke too much authority, such as through the 1000 of popular mobile games to sample the right to analyze the analysis found that 41.2% of the existence of the invocation of excessive permissions, such as in unnecessary cases, read user address , SMS, location information.

In addition to a series of statistical data, the report also released the 360 Security Center by the fake, the most tampered games Trojan Horse top20– "Plant vs Zombies" to the cumulative found that there are 222 disguised, tampered version of the top, crazy repeatedly see, crazy bubble dragon, etc. also become the most often disguised, tamper with the game.

In disguise, tamper with the biggest game of the Trojan horse TOP20, "Fruit Ninja" 21106.html 1,615,815 times a month, the total number of infections, plants vs zombies, the temple fled 2, fishing talent, Super Mary, etc. also with a single section of more than 100,000 of the infection volume ranked among them, The amount of infections that tamper with popular games is staggering.

The report points out that mobile gaming has become the first batch of mobile internet to form a mature business model of the industry, especially in open source and open are relatively high platform for Android, but in the number of games, the number of users, the market revenue soared year in, the domestic mobile gaming application chaos, CCTV has even 315 party attention, exposing the Red Police Alliance and other mobile games to steal user privacy behavior.

To this end, the 360 Security Center hopes that by issuing this special report on the security of the Android phone game, the government agencies, operators, channel operators and mobile phone security vendors to build mobile application safety standards, governance, combat the production and dissemination of mobile phone Trojan, from the gateway side, The channel end and the user's handset terminal provide the advantageous security safeguard.

It is also understood that combined with the current mobile phone trojan, malicious advertising plug-ins rampant, especially camouflage, tampering with mobile phone game threats to user security, the Ministry of Industry and other relevant institutions are also being developed such as "mobile internet black and white list norms" and other governance standards, 360 and other security vendors in the first time to make a statement that will actively participate in the formulation of relevant rules To provide a full range of technical support for the Ministry of Software to combat malware.