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Millions of players have been warned against fraudulent Go Pokemon game guides

Million mobile players have cheated game instructions with malware tied for download.

The nickname False guide, was hidden there in more than 40 applications in the Google Play store as a guide for popular mobile games in disguise, including Pokémon Go and mobile FIFA.

If smartphone players download the fraudulent game guide for your Android phone - the application would be to install and create a "silent botnet" of infected devices malicious software.

This allowed hackers to harness the collective power of all the infected phone to call attention without an owner of the device.

False Guide Administrator permissions for application deadlines, which prevents the victims of the repression of fake gambling guide of the device.

Have cybercriminals used this scam since November 2016th

One example of a FalseGuide app, highlighted by the researchers at CheckPoint CONTROL

An example of False Guide application, highlighted by researchers at Checkpoint

Since then False Guide applications downloaded over 2 million times, say security researchers.

That's an awfully large number of infected phones network.

Thanks to its extensive permissions is False Guide able to download additional malware to the infected computer, Check Point claims.

According to the objectives of cyber criminals, malware can be used to remove the device - access to personal data from remote smartphone owners introduces a DDoS attack or private networks.

"The applications are loaded into the application store in November 2016 which means hiding for five months, successfully amassed an impressive number of downloads," the researchers CheckPoint Oren Koriat Andrey Polkovnichenko and Bogdan Melnyko wrote in a blog.

"The updated estimate now includes about 2 million infected user. "

The official blog adds, "Mobile botnets are a growing trend since the beginning of last year, more and more sophistication and scope.

"This type of malware manages to infiltrate Google Play due to non-malignant nature of the first component that downloads only the actual malware.

"Users should not leave for their protection on app stores and implement additional security measures on the mobile device, because they use on their PC similar solutions. "

CheckPoint already been alerted Google malware - and market research company in the US quickly abandoned wrong Books Games Play Store.

Earlier this month two new fraudulent applications on the Play Store will be uploaded containing malware False Guide.

CheckPoint Google notified again and withdrew applications.

Those who have downloaded a game guide contains the wrong False Guide malware, the software must immediately remove.

is properly removed to ensure the application, you can access the Android device setup menu and dismissed the application of their privileges "of the dispenser."

Once this has been revoked, the False Guide application can be successfully removed.