Security researcher Jon Oberheide wrote a fake extension to the popular Angry Birds mobile game and put it in the Android Market as a demonstration of how an attacker could exploit a vulnerability he’d found in Android. The phony app didn’t do anything malicious, but it had permissions on Android handsets that enabled it to send toll SMS messages, steal contacts and take other actions, without the user’s knowledge.
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Dennis Fisher
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Security researcher Jon Oberheide wrote a fake extension to the popular Angry Birds mobile game and put it in the Android Market as a demonstration of how an attacker could exploit a vulnerability he’d found in Android. The phony app didn’t do anything malicious, but it had permissions on Android handsets that enabled it to send toll SMS messages, steal contacts and take other actions, without the user’s knowledge.