Gunpoder is a nasty class of malware. It tricks users into spreading the virus to all their friends, and gains lots of personal information that exposes them to future unknown hostile payloads, observed tech analyst Rob Enderle. “One of the biggest concerns surrounding open source in general was the apparent ease in subverting the legitimate applications and games to weaponize them.”
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