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Infected Pokemon GO APK Carries Dangerous Android Backdoor
An anonymous reader writes: Users eager to get their hands on the new Nintendo mobile gaming app Pokemon GO, downloading unofficial copies of the game are opening themselves up to hackers who are circulating malicious versions of the Android APK. A remote access tool (RAT), known as DroidJack (or SandroRAT), has been added to some APK files, allowing third parties to gain full control over the users' mobile devices. Permissions granted to the dodgy app include; directly calling phone numbers, reading phone status' and identities, editing and reading text messages, sending SMS messages and recording audio.The problem is that Pokemon Go is not officially available in every region, and the Google PlayStore doesn't let people in an unsupported region download the app. Also, millions of smartphones and tablets don't support many Google Mobile Services (GMS). While we do not condone downloading installation files of Android apps and games from unofficial stores, APKMirror is one of the few places that we would suggest our readers to check as it has a very commendable track record.
because pokemon go!
Lemmings was on the Amiga, you couldn't carry that with you!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Can't wait to see kids running around the slums, whore houses, drug dens, and all kinds of shitholes looking for stupid pokemons.
Kids + geocahing: what could possibly go wrong?
The news is "The problem is that Pokemon Go is not officially available in every region". Shocking that AAA game companies still don't get the single most important fact about selling games. Seriously, WTF?
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
That apk and his infected host file is dangerous
They're doing a phased rollout because the servers are frequently overwhelmed even with the few regions they're available in.
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
My first capture as MaliciousAPK, which I evolved into BotnetDevice and IdentityTheft! It's -10 defense, but gives me 16 additional WalledGardenTaunt per turn when facing an iOS opponent!
lemmings was on everything.
Until they fell off and died a horrible death.
Also worth mentioning that if you log in to the game via your Google Account under iOS, Niantic gets "full access" to your Google account.
Meaning that they can do things like:
1. Read your email.
2. Send email as you.
3. View photos you've uploaded.
4. View your Google+ Profile (OK, no one cares about this).
5. Delete documents from your Google Drive.
In fact, Google lists only three things it can't do: Change your password, delete your account, or authorize payments via Google Wallet. And that's it.
This doesn't apply under Android for some reason, it's limited solely to iOS.
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
First the movie studios and their region by region availability but now a video game? Is there some actual reason why a video game of all things isn't availble just anywhere?
There is malware for iOS jailbreak devices that choose to side load apps. The main difference is Android lets you go to a menu to disable the security checks while iOS requires a jailbreak.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
SandroRAT does sound like a Pokémon name. Seems legit.
"Pokemon Bug Removes $7.5B From Nintendo Market Val"
FTFY :P
Shocking that AAA game companies still don't get the single most important fact about selling games.
Hollywood has opened AAA movies in China first and made more money than opening in the USA a week later. If that trend continues, Hollywood will make movies that satisfies Chinese audiences first and foremost. The USA will no longer be a trendsetter.
Just rent 3x the servers for launch week. There's a whole "cloud" of such servers available. But perhaps innovations from the past 10 years are too new for AAA games.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
The main difference is Android lets you go to a menu to disable the security checks while iOS requires a jailbreak.
I stand corrected. Stupidity is optional but not mandatory on Android. ;)
I downloaded the APK from apkmirror which I trust: http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/n....
Furthermore, I'm running Android Marshmallow and it allows you to grant or deny specific privileges to each app. This app asked for 4 permissions: contact list, camera, location and storage. This is how you know it's "authentic".
If it's asking for more than that (i.e. microphone), you've got a malware ridden copy.
If you installed it from APK Mirror already, Proofpoint said that the SHA-256 for the one they believe to be clean is : 8bf2b0865bef06906cd854492dece202482c04ce9c5e881e02d2b6235661ab67
The infected one has a hash of: 15db22fd7d961f4d4bd96052024d353b3ff4bd135835d2644d94d74c925af3c4
Are you also going to rent 3x the support staff for a week?
Or maybe they just don't like to run their brand new intellectual property on someone else's servers, without an airtight contract, liability for the cloud company, the possibility to audit the provider, etc, etc?
so sick of hearing about this shit and seeing all the pictures of people's "cleverly" named whatever the fuck
I hope they all get exploited and the official version starts leading people off cliffs like lemmings
Jeebus man, sit down, have a relaxing drink and get a massage or something before you burst a blood vessel.
I work on a college campus i can't "just ignore it" because they're fucking bumping into people, wandering into offices
so yeah i'm a little fucking cranky about it. because its bombarding and annoying on the internet AND in real life right now.
and the fucking parking lot today JESUS CHRIST
Only if you failed the poor lemmings.
Btw, the whole lemmings going off a cliff thing was a Disney hoax. At least it led to a fun game.
I'm not sure it gets any more "news for nerds" than this
Like Kung Fu Panda?
https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2016/jun/14/hollywood-films-in-china-asia-market-warcraft-the-beginning
Old man yells at cloud, "Get off my lawn!" News at 11.
What's it feel like to be a horrible turd of a human being? Do you gather some sort of strength from it?
about as good an article as "sketchy download may have malware"
Are you also going to rent 3x the support staff for a week?
You're not going to have more support issues by provisioning adequate capacity.
Or maybe they just don't like to run their brand new intellectual property on someone else's servers, without an airtight contract, liability for the cloud company, the possibility to audit the provider, etc, etc?
Almost everyone new runs mostly on the cloud these days. Neither Amazon nor Microsoft is going to steal your IP. The whole point of the cloud is to make it trivial to provision large amounts of capacity, temporarily if needed.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
I heard if you go into the alley on 34th street at 11PM, you can find a wild MISSINGNO who will kill you and rob you of your smartphone.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Nintendo is fucking AWFUL at handling asymmetric demand & semi-intentionally uses it as a way to create artificial scarcity.
True story: I was ready to buy a Wii on release day. Except they sold out nationwide in about 5 minutes. The same thing happened about a month later when the next shipment arrived. The buzz wore off. Fast forward 6 months... upcoming holiday with plenty of time to play with my new toy... except they were sold out. Again. The last straw was when they were sold out... AGAIN... the next time I had a long weekend coming up... almost TWO GODDAMN YEARS after the Wii's release. I finally ended up buying one last year for a pittance at a garage sale, but by that point the magic was gone & I think I might have actually used it for a total of two hours over the next month before getting bored of it.
When the Wii-U came out, I was so soured by my Wii purchasing experience, I mentally wrote it off because I wasn't about to subject myself to the same cycle of anticipation and disappointment all over again. A month or so later, it was obvious that the Wii-U wasn't selling out anywhere anytime soon, but by THEN its truly underwhelming specs (and price that was made pointlessly and stupidly high by the damn tablet controller with mediocre touchscreen it needed) just kind of made it seem like a sick joke.
The point is, I can understand them being sold out on release day. I can even stomach them being sold out after a month. But the fact that the Wii was STILL having routine shortages more than a goddamn year after release made them lose me as a first sale, and the memory of it made them lose me as a Wii-U first sale, too. Yeah, I'll probably buy a Wii-U at a garage sale for $99 eventually, but Nintendo won't make any money off of it because I'll basically be rescuing somebody's old console from a landfill.
I wish to ${deity} that non-Nintendo platforms had games like Pikmin and Chibi Robo, instead of just seemingly-endless dystopian urban-warfare FPS games.
OK, I know several people with android phones who've had to go to unusual lengths to get it running. I'm fortunate, in that I have an antiquated (?) S3, so it won't run anyway.
But what methods could they use to determine if they have this?
-Styopa
This apk infects your pokemon with pokérus so they power up faster. Download while it lasts folks.
Nintendo is rolling this out to scale, and scaling as they go. We used to call this smart and profitable tactics in business. Your instant gratification does not matter to a company that goes out of business spending money they don't have on resources.
Stop pretending you are smarter than everyone else and have great ESP. If you had great ESP you would not be posting on Slashdot. Or perhaps you would, but it would be smarter.
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Gonna catch something!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I'm surprised Hollywood hasn't started making AAA movies filmed with two different casts... one with Mandarin-speaking actors, and one English-speaking actors (but otherwise sharing plot, CGI, sets, costume design, etc). Kind of like how American studios license and remake popular shows from Britain, but doing it right from the start so that both variants of the movie can share in the other's economies of scale and production costs.
Why? Because dubbing sucks, and subtitles suck even more. Just because people have historically tolerated them doesn't mean they actually LIKE them.
That said, 99% of my objection (as an American) to dubbing is the fact that they always seem to pick implausible voice actors to DO the dubbing. If I'm watching a movie that was clearly filmed in France, with French actors, and action that occurs in France, I fully EXPECT the English dub to have a "Hollywood French Accent". Ditto for movies set in Germany, Japan, etc. Logically, it MAKES SENSE that foreigners who are nevertheless speaking English would have an accent from wherever they're seemingly from. Dubbing them with voice actors who sound like they're from California or Ohio breaks the illusion and ruins it.
Because dubbing sucks, and subtitles suck even more.
I love Japanese anime because the dubbing and subtitles can vary widely in meaning. One character in "The Ghost in The Shell" describes the major as "tough broad" in audio but the subtitle says "dyke". Makes me wonder how Scarlet Johansson will play the major in the live action movie.
"Illegal copy of software has a virus".. Oh what a surprise. Is this just a poor attempt to have a dig at Android?
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