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Cybercriminals Exploit Björk's Biophilia App To Compromise Androids

Posted by timothy on from the click-here-for-free-bjork dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Russians who put out fake versions of Angry Bird Space and Instagram for Android last week have competition. Biophilia, a musical experiment by Bjork into the world of apps, has been ported to Android as a Trojan." Maybe not totally surprising; as the submitter reader continues, "last year at the launch of the app, Bjork was quoted in an interview inviting pirates/hackers to attempt to port her code over from iPhone to other platforms."

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  1. Björk Björk Björk by Ranger · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think "You have been Björked" will now enter the Android lexicon.

    --
    "You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
  2. Re:HOLY SHIT! by jdgeorge · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm not a huge Bjork fan, but I like her for being an innovative musician. She seems a little weird, but I she's never done anything that bothered me, so... why not?

    (Note: for the folks who disagree with her political views, I understand why they might not like her, but her politics don't really bother me.)

  3. This post and the article are just advertisements by Qwavel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The link takes you to Symantec's website - you know, the company that wants to make everyone think they need to buy anti-virus for Android.

    Neither the blog post on Symantec's website, or the /. summary say whether the Trojan is in any Android app store, which is obviously the most important piece of information. After all, any duffus can sit at home and write (some forms) of Android malware and post it to their website.

    The fact that Symantec would post something like this on their website is not a surprise - it's their website they can post what they want. But the fact that it got posted on slashdot....