Fake Bad Piggies Game hijack Google Chrome browser
Rovio's
latest game, Bad Piggies, is now available via Google Play and the App
Store, and as a PC and Mac download, but it has not yet made its way to
the Chrome Web Store. These pigs can indeed fly - "Bad Piggies," the
spinoff to the monster hit game "Angry Birds," set a new record by
soaring to the top of the charts just three hours after release.
Scammers have quickly taken
advantage of this, introducing bogus versions of Bad Piggies into the
Chrome Web Store that exist primarily to serve up in-browser
advertisements thanks to a few plug-in permissions.
Barracuda Networks’ lab today
discovered a knock-off of the new and wildly popular “Bad Piggies” game
which includes a phishing plug-in that may have injected an aggressive
adware program into more than 82,000 Chrome browsers.
The lack of a free online
version for Bad Piggies left space for others to capitalize on the
instant success of the game. Just days after the game launched, Jason
Ding, a research scientist from Barracuda Networks, found seven free
versions of the games in the Google Chrome web store.
Jason Ding notes that all of these games are being distributed by the same site: playook.info.
After installation, the games insert their own advertisements into
popular websites. Barracuda found that after deploying the games in a
test environment, they inserted advertising from playook.com into sites
like Myspace, eBay, IMDB, Yahoo and MSN among dozens of other sites on
the Chrome browser.
"If you have already installed, uninstall them immediately and change your passwords on other websites if possible," Barracuda said. The firm also warned users to be wary of plugins that requires a lot of suspicious permissions.
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