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Mobile Game Trojan Calls the South Pole

Posted by kdawson on from the if-a-penguin-answers dept.

UgLyPuNk writes with an excerpt from Gamepron.com: "Freeware games can actually cost you more money than their pay-to-play cousins, as mobile gamers in the UK have learned. A 'booby-trapped' version of a popular Windows Mobile game has been sneakily spending their money while they sleep – by dialing phone numbers in the Antarctic behind their backs."

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  1. Re:LOL by vivian · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Crappy brain dead design strikes again.
    Why on earth are mobile phone apps even allowed to make calls in the first place, without some sort of specificaly made user authorization?

    Surely that should be something that has to be done on a per-application basis, and only after the user has allowed it by entering an authorization password to allow the app to access those parts of the phone!?
    There should also be a way to limit the number or costs of calls (per application) that is built in at the lowest possible level too.