Spammers Bait Hooks With Fake iPhone Game

What your parents told you about taking candy from strangers applies to iPhone games as well. iPhone owners should be wary of e-mails purporting to feature a free game for the mobile device. What's attached to that e-mail isn't a game -- it's a Trojan. However, it won't infect your iPhone, or even your Mac. The Trojan targets Windows PCs. It does nothing to the iPhone; it only uses the device's popularity as bait.

Security firm Sophos issued a warning Thursday about e-mails purportedly offering free iPhone games. The missives profess to feature a free game for the smartphone, but the only thing those who download the attachment receive is malware designed to infect PCs running Windows.

The scam e-mails purport to include a file dubbed "Penguin.Panic.zip," a supposed version of the popular "Penguin Panic" motion-based iPhone app game, in which a cuddly Penguin jumps from one iceberg to another while avoiding falling icicles.

In the subject line, the hackers tout the file as "Virtual iPhone games!" or "Apple: The most popular game!", "Virtual iPhone toys!" and appeal to users to "Take a break!" or to "Beet (sic) my score! (7000 points)." However, the attached file, Troj/Agent-HNY, is a Trojan.

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