After the success of Pokémon Go, Super Mario Run has become the hottest Nintendo game for kids and grownups. With already 40 downloads, the game came a week ago on the iOS platform.
Of course friends of Android devices are disappointed because they are officially not yet compatible with their operating system. A simple search on the internet, however, will convince you to the contrary. If you search, you will find an apk executable of the game running on Android that is not below the Google Play platform.
Have you already downloaded and run it on your phone? Congratulations!! You have malware stuck. Super Mario Run has so far only been released for iOS devices and does not exist on Google Play. Anything on the internet is malware.
To install the malware, the user must go to the phone security menu and configure it to allow the installation of applications from "unreliable sources".
Some of these malicious apps running on the Internet have the ability to take full control of your Android device after your app asks you to access, read, receive and send SMS messages, capture photos and video and track your location using GPS.
However, one of the malicious applications entitled "Super Mario”Creates additional icons, displays pop-ups and banner ads, installs other malicious applications on the victim's smartphone, and performs activities without user interaction. According to the antivirus company Trend Micro its executives have been detected the malicious Super Mario application 90.000 times this year.
Another application, also called "Super Mario" discovered by the security company, asks users first to install an application called 9Apps, which then asks for more permissions, including audio recording, to read and modify the calendar and even access to the SD card.
So, instead of downloading apps from unfamiliar third-party stores, we recommend that Android users wait for official traffic through Google Play.
We also recommend that you go to Settings → Security and make sure the "Unknown Sources" option is turned off.
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