Security researchers have found the movement of Arab spring sparked calls to Android Trojan horse that sends messages to all your contacts with a link to an online tribute to Mohamed Bouazizi martyr Tunisian suicide which last December.
Bouazizi (pictured above), a fruit basket vendors in year 26 of age to which the items were seized and Tunisia body lost for refusing to pay bribes for verification when the council does not listen to the Governor of the case can a young man poured gasoline Bouazizi pass itself and survival match his Self-immolation protests triggered a month across the country, Tunisia. Egypt Syria and Yemen and Libya is credited for starting the spring of Arab.
According to Symantec, which reports a Trojan and detects that it is Android.Arspam in Norton Mobile Security, tweaked write hidden in Islamic prayer AlSalah is a popular app available in the Android market a counterfeit version.
App distributed via the Trojanized forums about Middle East issues only. Symantec says when Trojan will get a link from a list of all 18 to various online forums that contain the exact same gift Bouazizi text and URL to everyone in your contact list, all randomly with no knowledge of the course.
There is a special function that is included in the code if the app detects you have in Bahrain Bahrain's report it will download the Independent Commission of inquiry, which mirrors the accusation of human rights violations during the protests of PDF automatically Norton find any malicious code or fleece inside.
What is the difference between legitimate and fake apps only, no special permissions required to service that pays you, fake: make calls and send text messages?
Because the same duty of warning in each forum, Norton considered possibilities that attack sites by inserting commands, SQL, however, it was unable to confirm this, "because of the number of people sympathizing with the cause and reposting content from other sites.
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