Security researcher Jon Oberheide wrote a fake extension to the popular Angry Birds mobile game and put it in the Android Market as a demonstration of how an attacker could exploit a vulnerability he d found in Android. The phony app didn t do anything malicious, but it had permissions on Android handsets that enabled it to send toll SMS messages, steal contacts and take other actions, without the user s knowledge. Google’s Android security update addressed 43 bugs overall affecting Android phones.
Source: https://threatpost.com/image-day-fake-angry-birds-android-app-111810/74687/