Google Play: New Virus application

New virus discovered in 32 applications Google Play Store victims appliances installed software designed to steal money through SMS
The newly-discovered virus applications store Android Google - Google Play, download the devices to -9,000,000 2,000,000 times, according to reports from security firm Lookout. Because Google does not publish exact number of downloads apps, but only term not clear on some devices were really affected applications before Google blocked them.
The virus, which received the name BadNews, adapted for Russian speakers, so as to steal money intended for mobile users in the former Soviet Union. She pretended advertising system installed along with the game or other entertainment app - one that game developers may want to add their apps to make money from the product - and indeed initially sent using only the commercials. But after a while, began BadNews applications "push" devices also malware aimed at stealing money from the user.
Known malicious program that is installed AlphaSMS - a virus that uses SMS messaging mechanism to take money from mobile users. Legislation in Russia, and some former Soviet countries, allows to record numbers "Premium" - those sending SMS to the collected money - anonymously, and cyber criminals use applications such as AlphaSMS to send these messages to the victims hidden devices.
Download the app has the highest number of those infected is a game Savage Knife, which is reduced from 1 to 5 million times. More than half of the 32 infected apps are named only in Russian. Google, as noted, the virus has been removed.