Pirates Isshoni training App Android infected by Virus (updated)

The security of team Symantec company reported on what he described as the first confirmed virus for smartphones in Japan, and the virus is hidden in a pirate version of the formation of Isshoni: anime training with Android Hinako app. According to the report, the virus was actually discovered telephones between February and March.

Only by being installed, Symantec said the infected app to allow an outsider to access the phone. From there, the stranger can allegedly extracting contacts from the phone, location and e-mail address data, as well as make calls.

Symantec said that so far, Japanese phones have maintained a high level of security because of the incompatibility of national systems of telephone with systems of other countries. (This technological isolation of global norms is also known as "Syndrome of Galapagos".) However, with smartphones now share common platforms around the world, Symantec said that virus infections will increase in smartphones in Japan.

The original anime revolves around a girl of 16 years of age called Hinako, which was human once - until she became a character in anime when I was in high school. He now stars in an exercise video. As covered in an article of interest ANN, last August, the interactive application syncs footage of Hinako exercise with the inflections of the user, abdominal and squatters.


The first accused creator of the virus to be arrested in supposedly created Japan a virus of personal computer with images look anime television Clannad and placed the virus in the Winny file-sharing network.

Source: TBS, NTV

Image © 2009 Primastea

Update: As described, the pirate version of the application of the formation of Isshoni, "virus" with images of Clannad and a previous program hidden in a screensaver of Kanon can more accurately labelled as "Trojan horses" instead of "virus", as they depend on users unknowingly put them into their computers or devices to disseminate.
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