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Six Arrested Over Japanese Android Porn Virus

Posted by samzenpus on from the calling-dirty dept.

AZA43 writes "Tokyo police have arrested six men, including two IT executives and one former tech exec, in connection with an Android malware campaign that netted $265,000. The men created a piece of Android malware that they disguised as a video player and distributed through an adult website. The app stole personal information and attempted to extort money for data 'protection services.' The malware doesn't appear to be particularly sophisticated, but it convinced more than 200 horny Japanese dudes to shell out $1200 each. And the arrests are one of, if not the, first time a major police force brought down criminals who used Android malware to extort a significant chunk of cash."

92 comments

  1. Ahem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    convinced more than 200 horny Japanese dudes to shell out $1200 each

    Either A) Japanese women don't look at porn, or B) They were smart enough not to shell out $1200

    1. Re:Ahem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Or too dumb to know how to shell it out online :)

    2. Re:Ahem by PlusFiveTroll · · Score: 1

      If you wanted to catch women in a scam like this you'd have to do it a little differently. Instead of straight porn, have the scam work in a erotic novel that women like to read. When you get to a steamy part, pop up an add saying that you'll send 'Mr McStud' to their house. If they fall for it, have the scam be that they need to pay $1200 so they don't tell husband+world that she ordered a male prostitute.

    3. Re:Ahem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Either A) Japanese women don't look at porn, or B) They were smart enough not to shell out $1200

      Or C) They don't use Android.

    4. Re:Ahem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If you want to scam woman you go for porn for woman, home improvement websites.

    5. Re:Ahem by Dogtanian · · Score: 1

      I thought the stereotypical woman-oriented scam involved taking a photograph of a fiftysomething woman, then placing a massively photoshopped version of the exact same photo beside it and saying how "this 54-year-old woman looks 25!" and "doctors hate her" yadda yadda.

      Oh, and some geolocated bullshit claiming that she's a resident of your hometown (except when they clearly can't figure it out and use the location of your ISP hundreds of miles away instead...)

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    6. Re:Ahem by Nadaka · · Score: 5, Funny

      Either A) Japanese women don't look at porn, or B) They were smart enough not to shell out $1200

      Or C) They don't use Android.

      Japanese women ARE Android.

    7. Re:Ahem by toadlife · · Score: 1

      No. It's definitely home improvement websites.

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    8. Re:Ahem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Dermatologist here. Posting as AC via TOR for obvious reasons - if my fellow professionals found out I am breaking the code and talking about this, they would kill my family and make me watch. We are doing everything we can to stop this woman, but the truth she has uncovered is just too powerful. We're not doing this just to protect our profession, but because the first-world economy is dependent on our spending. If this gets out, and people stop going to dermatologists, it could mean the end of civilization as we know it. Damn that woman!

    9. Re:Ahem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There is a reason why when I look at porn the adverts are about 1/2 aimed at women. Those shitty anti-ageing treatments, and weight loss treatments never seem to figure out I'm a man, despite having been there a ... few times, though

    10. Re:Ahem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      you don't know my ex-girlfriend.... she watched straight porn in the middle of our MBA classes when she got bored.

      Anyway, there is a Windows "virus" like this too in Japan. The funny part is that my friend called me over in a panic, and it took me like 5 minutes to disable. (It was a some kind of special "HTML Application" .hta that IE apparently allows to do whatever the hell it wants, including install itself to be launched at start-up).

    11. Re:Ahem by LienRag · · Score: 1

      Or vagina.

  2. LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    But Android doesn't have malware issues! Stop spreading FUD!!!!!

    1. Re:LOL by RivenAleem · · Score: 1, Funny

      No, Android was the subject of the porn. Those crazy Japs!

      (sorry)

  3. But /. said Linux don't get malware? by cpu6502 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm confused. ;-)
    Just joking. Obviously Linux will get malware once it becomes the #1 OS (on phones). What about Apple's iOS? Does it get malware? I don't recall reading reports about iOS viruses.

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    1. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by SeanBlader · · Score: 1

      http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/attacks-mac-security-risks/
      http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/23/a-new-variant-of-malware-targets-mac-users/
      http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/24/mac-malware_n_1448561.html
      http://www.macworld.com/article/1160085/apple_posts_mac_defender_fix.html

      You don't even have to turn over a rock in the last six months to have heard about the 600k plus macs that are infected.

    2. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by alvinrod · · Score: 1

      I wasn't aware that Macs were running iOS now.

    3. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      I'm confused. ;-)
      Just joking. Obviously Linux will get malware once it becomes the #1 OS (on phones). What about Apple's iOS? Does it get malware? I don't recall reading reports about iOS viruses.

      Though I am no where near the best qualified here to answer you but will attempt to do so anyway. Any OS can get "malware", however a *nix OS at some point requires either active agreement by the computer's operator to be installed or active attack of an exploitable programming error and/or socially engineered user rights. Further in the title section it would appear to be a slashdot editorial error to call this a "virus" as that would imply a self-replicating nature for the "malware" not requiring human interaction. Neither the article or the synopsis calls it a virus.

    4. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Herpa derp. Reading is tough when you're filled with such rage!

    5. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by alvinrod · · Score: 2

      I don't think there have been any large pieces of malware released for iOS, but they're possible. Charlie Miller had snuck an app into the app store that could have functioned as malware if here weren't just doing it as a proof of concept. Also, every time a new jailbreak is released for iOS, it could potentially be used for malware, especially some of the older jailbreaks that simply required loading a PDF or visiting a web page.

      Apple's security model does help to prevent some cases where it's easier for Android to be targeted, but otherwise iOS could be infected. I'm sure we'll see one eventually. Whether it's someone slipping something by a reviewer or someone who develops a jailbreak deciding that they can get a lot of money selling it on the black market, it's bound to happen given the popularity of the platform and how much data is available on a person's mobile device these days.

    6. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by mcgrew · · Score: 1

      What about Apple's iOS? Does it get malware? I don't recall reading reports about iOS viruses.

      You have CPU in your user name and you don't know that a trojan is not a virus? Get everybody now using Windows to switch to Ubuntu and you'll see a lot of Ubuntu trojans, but still no Ubuntu viruses. I'm not sure even Windows even gets viruses any more; your OS has to be pretty dammned crappy for a virus to work.

      You have to be tricked into installing a trojan. You don't have to be tricked to be infected with a virus.

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    7. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by Microlith · · Score: 1

      Android gets malware. Android malware won't necessarily run on other Linux-based platforms.

      What about Apple's iOS? Does it get malware?

      It can, but if it does it'll be way more severe due to it being a remote exploit.

    8. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by TheCarp · · Score: 5, Funny

      Linux will get malware when? Ha, we have had malware for years, haven't you ever heard of emacs? It is a nearly fullly functional trojan OS disguised as a shitty text editor. This is nothing new for us.

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    9. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by BasilBrush · · Score: -1, Troll

      Really? You went to the bother of finding 4 links without first ascertaining that iOS is the OS on the iPhone and iPad, not the OS on the Mac.

    10. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by cpu6502 · · Score: 0

      >>>I'm not sure even Windows even gets viruses any more;

      Sony CD rootkit?
      Java viruses through the browser?
      Oh and it's "trojan horse". You don't get infected by a Trojan (a citizen of the city of Troy), but get infected by a trojan horse. If you can be a nitpicky prick about my word "virus" than I can be nitpitcky too.

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    11. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Eternal September Slashdot edition. Pro top: trojans and viruses are two different things. Any operating system that allows the user control to install apps not in the curated market will be subject to trojans.

    12. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by vawwyakr · · Score: 4, Informative

      These people elected to install a program on their phone from a porn site without considering the security implications. This wasn't a virus breaking in through some security hole. This was a program that required the user to turn off a security setting on the phone and then install ignoring the security page (or they thought "sure it seems completely normal that some porn video player requires those security settings"). So the only blame here is the user doing something entirely stupid. iOS of course fixes this by assuming its users are stupid and locking them into only allowing apps from their market to be installed.

    13. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by highphilosopher · · Score: 2

      Correction. There are two ways to be infected by a trojan:

      1. Buy condoms that aren't sealed (of the Trojan brand of course).

      2. Buy a cheap hooker in Troy

      Either one could work fine for you right?

    14. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by BasilBrush · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      For 4 years it's been theoretically possible that one day there might be some malware on iOS.

      Of course good old Android has been true to to it's ideal of offering choice. There's quite a variety of malware on offer for that platform.

    15. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by Stormtrooper42 · · Score: 2

      Any OS can get "malware", however a *nix OS at some point requires either active agreement by the computer's operator to be installed or active attack of an exploitable programming error and/or socially engineered user rights.

      That would be true with any modern OS (yes, even windows, unless you're running XP with admin rights)

      In this case, it's an Android app, so when you install it, it tells you what it can access on your phone. Yet, users didn't cancel the installation, apparently.

    16. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      >>>I'm not sure even Windows even gets viruses any more;

      Sony CD rootkit?

      Java viruses through the browser?

      Both of which are how many years old? GP made the (silly*) assumption that Windows PCs do not get viruses anymore, and your choice of examples does more to prove them right than prove them wrong. For an obligatory car analogy:

      GP: "Do cars even use leaded gasoline anymore?"

      You: "Cars from the early 70's do."

      Me: "Which has what to do with cars from, say, the last 5 years?"

      If you can be a nitpicky prick about my word "virus" than I can be nitpitcky too.

      Except that there was no nitpickery going on regarding the term "virus".

      Seriously, do you have a mental disorder? It would really help our ability to have a civil discussion if we knew the reason for your non sequiturs.

      *Stuxnet anyone?

    17. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Malware targetting idiots? Wish it was all like this.

    18. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by romanval · · Score: 1

      Say what you will about the 'walled garden', but one hurdle for malware makers is Apple's requirment of their legally binding identity (a person or business with a true name, address, contact info) in order for Apple to do business with you. Most shady fuckers would rather stay anonymous.

    19. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by Luckyo · · Score: 2

      Essentially all jailbreak techniques are application of malware principles (but for a good purpose from user's PoV). For example, some time ago your iphone could get rooted (and jailbroken) by visiting a certain webpage. This vulnerability has since been long fixed, but as long as there are ways to jailbreak, there are vectors for malware through same backdoors.

    20. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's mostly true. There have been some image processing bugs which have allowed sites like jailbreakme.com to work, but most of the time jailbreaking is done by hijacking the DFU process and disabling the code signing requirement (or installing another trusted certificate). It really isn't feasible for malware to utilize this vector, unless the malware has infected the desktop OS first.

    21. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by tibman · · Score: 1

      Is it malware if you can just uninstall it?

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    22. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Doesn't get viruses (auto-replicating malware), anyone can make a Trojan Horse for any system.

      Hacking people is usually easier than hacking machines.

    23. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by Mashiki · · Score: 1

      Looks like you pissed off the "vi" fanboys again. They can't take a joke, big shock. Well, I guess someone had to throw a hissyfit like usual...

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    24. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by ColdWetDog · · Score: 1

      Like no one has ever used shell companies or shady lawyers to obfuscate ownership. It is a hurdle, albeit not a terribly high one.

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    25. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by maxwell+demon · · Score: 1

      anyone can make a Trojan Horse for any system.

      Well, I'd like to see how you'd make a Trojan Horse for my old (non-programmable) pocket calculator. :-)

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    26. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by slazzy · · Score: 1

      Technically trojan horse not virus, but it's hard to review a program and it's purpose on a mobile device while doing other things (one handed web browsing...)

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    27. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      I don't know what is more depressing. The fact that there are people out there that are stupid enough to fall for this or the fact that we have laws to protect such people from themselves.

      I'd like to live in a country where law isn't there to prop up the painfully stupid. Are there any such nations?

    28. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by rastilin · · Score: 1

      What seems stupid to you doesn't seem as stupid to other people, but the reverse is also true. Just wait till you get defrauded over a rental agreement and it won't seem like such a silly idea.

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    29. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? by mcgrew · · Score: 1

      "Trojan" is short for "trojan horse" and hasn't used wooden horses for that trick since the ancient Greeks.

      The Sony XCP rootkit was indeed a trojan, and wasn't a virus. You had to insert the music CD and run the programs. My daughter infected my computer with it, she wouldn't have run the program if she had the slightest inkling that a big, respected company like Sony would deliberately sabotage their paying customers' equipment.

      The only real virus I ever got was way back in the early nineties when I took some work home on a floppy, the PC I was using had been infected by a co-worker with the boot sector virus Michelangelo.

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  4. Career suicide. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See!! Crime does pay. Oh wait.

  5. blame the user by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Most likely there were warnigns about the type of data that the app would have accessed, but the users didn't pay attention and agreed blindly.

    1. Re:blame the user by HarrySquatter · · Score: 1

      It's doubtful it asked for anything different than a typical Google app does.

    2. Re:blame the user by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Oh, C'mon! It's porn, what would you check on the app!? The more the app can access the better! You never know how good those apps are getting!!!!

    3. Re:blame the user by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Agreed Blindly?

      So, you really WILL go blind?

  6. If you're going to get pwned... by coinreturn · · Score: 1

    ...it might as well be with porn!

    1. Re:If you're going to get pwned... by dkleinsc · · Score: 1

      Are you saying this is a virtual "death by snu-snu"?

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  7. Wait wait wait by davidbrit2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are we talking Android, the operating system, or android, the robot design concept? This is Japan we're talking about, so... you never know.

    1. Re:Wait wait wait by kehren77 · · Score: 4, Informative

      I saw "Japanese Android Porn" and just assumed robot. Android the OS didn't even occur to me for a 10-15 seconds.

    2. Re:Wait wait wait by davidbrit2 · · Score: 1

      The funny part is you could replace "Android" with "Gynoid", and the headline would make just as much sense, if not more.

    3. Re:Wait wait wait by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Was it fully functional?

    4. Re:Wait wait wait by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The funny part is you could replace "Android" with "Gynoid", and the headline would make just as much sense, if not more.

      Yeah, you could replace it with "kumquat", too, and it'd make the same amount of sense. What's your point?

    5. Re:Wait wait wait by game+kid · · Score: 1

      It was obviously a virus that spreads pictures of Cutie Honey in...compromising positions.

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  8. video player?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    OK well beyond this specific thing, this whole idea of installing "custom" video players just for one specific video seems insane to me.

    Like, we've had good and trustworthy video players for a really long time. Hell, mplayer runs damn near on every platform that exists. Then something comes along and says, "hey, to see this video you MUST install "MyCustomPlayerItWontJackYourSystemWeSwear!!.exe" ... and people do that shit? WTF?

    Same for music. Why in the hell prompted the break from the former "standard, trustworthy players separated from the content they play", and towards, "using custom apps for every little thing?" You see it increasing now on tablets too.

    It's crazy!

    1. Re:video player?? by coinreturn · · Score: 2

      OK well beyond this specific thing, this whole idea of installing "custom" video players just for one specific video seems insane to me.

      Like, we've had good and trustworthy video players for a really long time. Hell, mplayer runs damn near on every platform that exists. Then something comes along and says, "hey, to see this video you MUST install "MyCustomPlayerItWontJackYourSystemWeSwear!!.exe" ... and people do that shit? WTF?

      Same for music. Why in the hell prompted the break from the former "standard, trustworthy players separated from the content they play", and towards, "using custom apps for every little thing?" You see it increasing now on tablets too.

      It's crazy!

      Horny teenagers will install it even if its called "MyCustomPlayerItWillJackYourSystem.exe if they're promised some hardcore porn.

    2. Re:video player?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Horny teenagers will install it even if its called "MyCustomPlayerItWillJackYourSystem.exe if they're promised some hardcore porn.

      Horny humans you mean. Adults are just as bad.

    3. Re:video player?? by PlusFiveTroll · · Score: 2

      A while back all the Monitizers figured out if you don't hide the data behind an app, anybody with a bit of sense could make a better program than you and take all your business, hell someone might even open source it and kill a lot of the profit in the market. At one time many software providers had a lockin on their customers with binary software and undocumented file formats. With the rising of the internet a lot of closed file formats died along with their parent companies and a era of openness ensued. Now again we have a new form of lock-in called the cloud where a black-box app sends data off to the twisted nether. If they don't give you a way to export your data to an open format of some type, you've taken a step back in many ways.

      'Why in the hell prompted the break from the former "standard, trustworthy players separated from the content they play" '
      This. "non-standard apps separate customers from their money, pay to play."

    4. Re:video player?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      zomg, I had to download MS Project to open a Project file. wtfzzz.

    5. Re:video player?? by farble1670 · · Score: 1

      Horny teenagers will install it even if its called "MyCustomPlayerItWillJackYourSystem.exe if they're promised some hardcore porn.

      you don't need to install anything to get hardcore porn.

    6. Re:video player?? by coinreturn · · Score: 1

      Horny teenagers will install it even if its called "MyCustomPlayerItWillJackYourSystem.exe if they're promised some hardcore porn.

      you don't need to install anything to get hardcore porn.

      Of course not, but horny teenagers don't necessarily know that and will install ANYTHING if promised hardcore porn.

  9. wow executives that can code! by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 1

    wow executives that can code!

    1. Re:wow executives that can code! by GodfatherofSoul · · Score: 2

      Lots of execs can code (e.g. my boss). It's after the company goes public and the corporate bureaucrats start running things that you get the elevated accountants and managers running the show.

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  10. Not a new scam by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    There are lots of PC scam which does pretty much the same thing over the years in Japan - you click on the "free" porn links which asks for basic user registration for creating an account, and by the time you finished watching the porn the site scares you by displaying your IP address and a general location of your physical address deduced from the IP on a pop up and claims that by watching the porn videos on the site you own them X amount of yen which you must transfer into an account within a certain time frame or else they would send a bill to your house and/or workplace to claim the money you "own" them. Most non-tech people gets scared by the time they see the IP address and the physical address and many more are too afraid of the shame of being revealed to have watched porn and thus cough up the money.

  11. Misread it by Hentes · · Score: 1

    I first read the title as "Six Arrested Over Japanese Porn Android Virus" and thought their sexbots got hacked. Not as interesting now...

  12. Walled Gardens look quite nice by scorp1us · · Score: 0

    When the alternative is a field of manure.

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    1. Re:Walled Gardens look quite nice by Paco103 · · Score: 1

      My dog disagrees!

    2. Re:Walled Gardens look quite nice by Microlith · · Score: 2

      I know, because being able to do whatever you want (even if there is some risk) is so very, very terrible.

    3. Re:Walled Gardens look quite nice by amicusNYCL · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I guess if your only 2 options were a walled garden or a "field of manure" then you might have a point. A malicious app that affected 200 people doesn't exactly taint the entire Android environment. Conversely, the walled garden approach does affect all non-jailbroken iOS users.

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    4. Re:Walled Gardens look quite nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Walled Gardens look quite nice When the alternative is a field of manure.

      I guess you don't know much about growing plants. A field of manure is far better than a walled garden. It's almost ideal!

    5. Re:Walled Gardens look quite nice by scorp1us · · Score: 1

      I prefer to see it as I "outsourced" my due diligence to Steve Jobs et al.

      Without a review process, you have to open your phone to it before you know what it is going to do. Run just once, you could be totally exploited. I prefer some test phone in a lab do that for me.

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    6. Re:Walled Gardens look quite nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, if only the app store review process was actually worth a damn. Between rejecting useful apps purely for business reasons, to allowing obvious scams like this: http://www.cultofmac.com/174201/avoid-this-awful-microsoft-word-2012-knockoff-for-iphone/

    7. Re:Walled Gardens look quite nice by amicusNYCL · · Score: 1

      I prefer some test phone in a lab do that for me.

      And you're assuming that Apple is the sole mobile OS company to do this? The Google Play store is in fact scanned regularly for malware, and it does get removed and developer accounts do get banned. The major difference between the Android and iOS environments is that on my phone I can download and install an app directly from a website. I don't need to do that, and I understand that those apps have not been vetted like apps in the Google Play store, but it remains an option for me. It's not an option for you.

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  13. They must have some pretty damning evidence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Seeing as the Japanese justice system has a 99.97% conviction rate they must have an airtight case against these guys.

  14. OPEN SOURCE 4 LYFE!!!! FUCK STEVE JOBZ!!1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    yo android rulez cuz its open source witch makes it moar secure cuz u can read teh codez!!11

  15. Anroid != GNU/Linux by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 2

    I do not disagree with the sentiment, but let's try to be clear here. Android is a very different OS from Fedora. "Linux" is just not a very descriptive name for an OS anymore.

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  16. Would A Porn Virus Be A Robotic STD? by Zamphatta · · Score: 1, Funny

    Get 'em labeled as robot sexual predators! Yeah. After all, they were arrested for spreading a robotic sexually transmitted disease, right?

  17. Robot porn by Shaneco · · Score: 1

    Damn robot porn

  18. Japanese Android Porn Virus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I wish I could go back 30 years in time to tell people that "Six Arrested Over Japanese Android Porn Virus" is one of the news headlines of the future :)

    1. Re:Japanese Android Porn Virus by PPH · · Score: 1

      I don't know, doctor. My sex-bot beeps and reboots every time it comes. It must be some sort of virus.

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  19. Sexually transmitted computer disease! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Some of those lonely dudes thought they'd never have the opportunity for an STD. They were right, but didn't look out for the STCD.

  20. Why? by PPH · · Score: 0

    There are enough horny Japanese who will pay $1200 for porn that the virus is unnecessary.

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  21. this FP for GNAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    sux0r stAtus, *BSD

  22. Mixed Feelings by dmmiller2k · · Score: 1

    On one hand, since I have an Android phone I'm glad the perpetrators were caught, but on the other hand this almost seems like a victim-less crime. Or at least one with Darwinian fairness...

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  23. Android malware? by dgharmon · · Score: 1

    If this malware ran on Windows then the main article would keep referring to 'financial malware` or 'computer malware`, anything but use the M word :)

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  24. Pornapalooza by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Japanese porn?
    It's probably worth $1200.

  25. 265 Grand? by Greyfox · · Score: 1

    They probably could have made more than that selling their used panties. Admittedly it's kind of difficult to get used panties into an Android phone. Wait. I'm having an idea. Hmm. No. I don't think the world is quite ready for a "Smelliphone." You watch, now that I said that, Apple will drop one next year. That's why they make the big bucks.

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  27. It is not a virus by WombleGoneBad · · Score: 1

    Does no-one use the proper terms anymore? malware - yes, Trojan - yes , Virus - No.