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Best Hack And Slash Games For iOS And Android

Blizzard is hard at work adding some much-needed polish and content to the third outing in its best-selling Diablo franchise. If the charm offensive has yet to win you over, why not look through our list of outstanding mobile hack-and-slash games? Some of these titles give even the PC and console big-boys a run for their money, and are sure to provide great value for yours.

A dungeon-crawler in the most classic vein, this top-down isometric battler makes great use of touchscreens for its swipe-gesture controls. While we’d like to have seen some multiplayer action, the game’s single-player storyline spans five enormous chapters. If you hunger for a Diablo-like experience on the go, you can do a lot worse than download this grizzly game from Chillingo.

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Living up to the reception of the original, best-selling, and absolutely fantastic-looking original game was no small task for Chair Entertainment, but fortunately, the studio managed to pull it off. The sequel packs in more enemies, more weapons, and another exquisitely crafted world, while refining the cautious but brutal combat. The sequel also introduced the ClashMob system, allowing players to take part in global competitions for ultimate prestige. We’d hate to choose between the two games, but even at the relatively high price, you’ll get more than enough value from either. We suggest buying both.

Leading 2012′s charge towards bringing console-quality gaming to mobile devices is Zynga’s Horn, a fantastic RPG slasher that calls to mind the classic Zelda games and just a tiny bit of Shadow of the Colossus. Teaming up with a cantankerous assistant, you battle with swords, bows, and your magical horn to solve the many puzzles of the game, and finish the fight in one of the best adventures available on mobile.

As well as taking charge of a ferocious fighter on your own, you can also team up with a friend for co-op action in Glu Mobile’s recently released sequel. A bloody and brutally violent affair, you’ll trawl through grim dungeons in search of shinier armor and weapons. It’s also one of the prettiest games available to Android gamers, and certainly deserves a home on your tablet.

This freemium game from Gameloft may not be to everyone’s taste, as there’s a heavy dependence on in-app purchases, but fans of the genre owe it to themselves to get a feel for the Dungeon Hunter series. The third entry represents the best of the lot, with over a thousand shiny items to find, four different classes, and some of the most impressive graphics we’ve seen on iOS and Android.

A great example of easy to learn, hard to master, Heroes Call has recently been updated to support the new iPad’s amazing Retina capabilities. Pick a hero that suits your combative preferences, and then embark on 40 levels of dungeon-crawling, blood-spattering mayhem. There are more than 100 different enemy types to be slaughtered, and each hero takes a unique journey through the game’s story.

Game Boy Runs Android, Best Hack Ever?

[Photo: Flexoduss]What’s cooler than rooting your smartphone or tablet to run upcoming versions of the Android OS? Making other random gadgets run Android. One of the coolest of these hacks has to be by XDA-Developers member “flexoduss,” who got Android 2.1 running on his Game Boy. Wait, what?
OK, so this isn’t quite the root it appears: Flexoduss gutted an old Game Boy and slid in his Motorola MB511 Flipout phone, so it’s more like an extremely cool phone case. The ultimate goal is to get the GameBoy’s control buttons to work, but Flexoduss hasn’t gotten there just yet.
Sadly, the forum thread doesn’t get into much detail, but flexoduss aims to add a charging port too. Getting the microphone right is proving to be tricky–those on the receiving end cannot hear responses all too well.
While it’s a shame the actual Game Boy can’t run Android, this little mod is seriously cool, and it makes me wish I had one.
You can follow the developer’s progress on fixing the issues and other improvements over on the XDA Developers Forum.

Android Botnet Exploits Gingerbread Root Access

Malware grabs rootkit exploit code to obtain temporary access privileges, poses a "serious threat," says researcher.
The mobile malware state of the art continues to improve, as demonstrated by the emergence of a new Android threat that's been dubbed RootSmart.
According to Symantec, the malware interfaces with a bonet that it's dubbed "Android.Bmaster." That botnet appears to have active connections with about 11,000 Android devices, and is likely generating daily revenue between $1,600 and $9,000 for its controller, or botmaster.


 RootSmart is designed to escape detection by being named "com.google.android.smart," which the same name as a settings app included by default with Android operating systems. The malware can gain root access to phones running versions of Android Gingerbread before 2.3.4, or Android 3.0, as well as "phone home" to a command-and-control (C&C) server for instructions. More than half of all Android smartphones are now running some version of Gingerbread.
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When first installed, RootSmart lies dormant, waiting for some type of trigger, such as an outgoing phone call. Once triggered, however, "RootSmart will connect to its C&C server with various information collected from the phone," said Xuxian Jiang, a computer science professor at North Carolina State University, in a blog post. "Our analysis shows that the collected information includes the Android OS version number, the device IMEI number, as well as the package name." To make it more difficult for security vendors to block the software, it also obfuscates the URL of the C&C server that it contacts.
After RootSmart phones home, it then downloads exploit code known as GingerBreak from the server, and uses it "to obtain root privilege on infected phones," said Jiang. Next, RootSmart attempts to download additional malicious applications--including malware known as DroidLive--which it installs in the device's system partition. "It's worth mentioning that if RootSmart fails to obtain the root privilege, it will still attempt to install the downloaded apps," said Jiang. "However in this case, it cannot install the apps silently. Instead, a pop-up window will be shown for [the] user's approval."
"Due to the fact that RootSmart utilizes the GingerBreak root exploit and can be remotely controlled, we believe it poses serious threats to mobile users," said Jiang.
What's RootSmart's purpose? Like so many types of malware, it's designed to earn money for its botmaster. According to Symantec, it pursues that goal by primarily targeting users of two Chinese mobile phone carriers. "For example, an infected device can be configured to send messages to a particular premium SMS number at a specific rate (three a day, for instance) for a certain number of days," said Cathal Mullaney, a security response engineer at Symantec, in a blog post. "Devices connecting to premium video or telephony services can also be configured for how long they should connect to a premium phone number or pay-per-view website." The malware can be set to block incoming emails containing specified keywords, which attackers could use to try and prevent mobile subscribers from receiving "unusual activity" alerts from their carrier.
How might RootSmart end up on an Android device? The software comes bundled "with a legitimate application for configuring phone settings," said Mullaney. "Trojanized applications are a well known infection vector for Android malware, as they allow malware to be distributed while retaining the appearance of a legitimate application."
Thankfully, however, the N.C. State researchers found the malware not in the official Android Market, but rather on third-party download sites. Accordingly, Jiang recommended avoiding such download sites whenever possible. But in some countries, including China, access to the official Google Android Market is blocked. Thus it's no surprise that, according to Symantec's study of RootSmart, "the vast majority of infected devices belonged to Chinese customers."
In terms of mitigation strategies, Jiang also recommended keeping a close eye on the permissions being requested by apps, as well as any unusual device behavior, and finally, running mobile security tools to keep devices safe. 

New Android malware downloads malicious code days after installed, could go undetected by Google’s Bouncer

A North Carolina State University professor has discovered new type of malware that could possibly evade Google’s malware-detecting Bouncer service. The new type of malware, called “Rootsmart” uses a process called “privilege escalation” to malware scanners such as Google’s Bouncer.
When a Rootsmart malware is first installed on a user’s phone, it contains no malicious code, making the app appear harmless. Since no malicious code is available on the app when it is first installed, it can bypass scans that could detect its true intentions. Once the app has been installed for hours (or days), it is then capable of downloading new code from remote servers to fulfill its malicious intent.
The malicious code that is downloaded to the device is the famous “Gingerbreak” exploit that is used to root many devices running Android 2.3 to 3.0. With the Gingerbreak exploit running on the user’s phone, the attacker can then call paid numbers, read data, listen through the microphone, and silently install other apps on the device.
Although this new type of malware was found, it was not found on Google’s Android Market. Instead, it was found on a Chinese app download website. However, this method of delaying malicious code from appearing on an app could make it possible for malicious apps to make their way to the Android Market.
Last week, Google announced a service called Bouncer that scanned all Android Market apps for malware, trojans, and viruses. In addition to scanning apps, Bouncer also simulates running apps on a device, so it’s possible that it could detect these malware apps that use privilege escalation to download malicious code.

Android 'Swiss Army Knife' hack tool released

An open source tool has been released that makes it easier to reverse engineer Android applications.
Oter Tool, released today at the Shmoocon security conference in Washington DC, is designed to streamline some of the arduous processes crucial to reverse engineer Android applications.
The application graphical user interface is an easy access to a bundle of typically “annoying procedures” including like installing certificates, and modifying .apk files which is done during static and dynamic analysis of Android apps.
“These common tasks take a huge set of commands which are almost impossible to memorise,” Mathew Rowley, senior consultant at Matasano told SC.
He said the tool was “a kind of swiss army knife for reversing Android applications”.
The tool, available on github, uses smali/baksmali libraries to decompile Android apps (.apk). It runs on Mac OS X and Linux and could be later written for Windows.
Rowley, a former security technician and penetration tester for US telco Comcast had released an eariler version of the tool at Toorcon 13 last year.