6 arrested in Japan for distributing Android malware via porn site

Jun 20, 2012, 13:00 (0 Talkback[s])

In what could be a first of sorts in Japan, six men have been arrested for fleecing Android smartphone users of some Y20 million by distributing malware through a porn site.

A report on The Yomiuri Shimbun quoted the Metropolitan Police Department as saying this was the first time Japanese police built a case involving distribution of a smartphone virus.

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