the Attackers disguised Trojan Android/under Mapin popular games and add to them, spreading them through the official Google Play and other app stores. Came under attack Plants vs. Zombies 1-2, Subway Suffers, Traffic Racer, Temple Run 2 Zombies, Candy Crush, Jewel Crush, and others, reported on the website of the antivirus company ESET.

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the Attackers disguised Trojan Android/under Mapin popular games and add to them, spreading them through the official Google Play and other app stores. Came under attack Plants vs. Zombies 1-2, Subway Suffers, Traffic Racer, Temple Run 2 Zombies, Candy Crush, Jewel Crush, and others, reported on the website of the antivirus company ESET.

First download Android/Mapin on Google Play dated 24-30 November 2013 and 22 November 2014. With the game on the device is installed malicious Supplement under the neutral name systemdata or resource that hides the boot loader Android/TrojanDropper.Mapin.

So as not to arouse suspicion, the activity of the malware shows a day after installation, offering to install Google Play update Update or Manage Settings. If the user refuses to download, the message will reappear when changing network connections. Under the guise of update hidden Trojan Android/Mapin, allowing the attackers to gain access to the victim and make it part of a botnet.

"Some versions of Android/Mapin reach of fully functional Trojan no less than three days. This is probably one of the reasons that the Android bootloader/TrojanDropper.Mapin has not been seen by the system testing of new applications Google Bouncer", — said the representative of the anti-virus company. According to him, currently the functionality is not implemented fully and the likelihood is that he will improve.