Deadly Virus Strikes Chinese Cell phones
13 Nov, 2010, 2:06 pm IST | by
Roshan DSilva
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As reported by Shanghai Daily, a virus is sweeping across China's smartphones affecting over 1 million users and turning them into zombie spam bots. The virus is similar to the Troj/SymbSms, a malware which infected Russian smartphones earlier this year. Be careful cellphone users A variant of that virus also was used to attack Android smartphones, posing as a media player. Once the phone is infected, which is accomplished when a user clicks on a link to install a fake anti-virus program on the phone, the virus broadcasts the user’s SIM information to the hackers servers. Once the hacker has the information, it accesses the address book and sends out pay-per-click ads to others users. These links are infected as well and will compromise other phones as soon as the links are clicked. The Russian virus which created chaos last year, used the same modus operandi, but its goal was to send out premium text messages. This virus is costing Chinese customers over 2 million yuan a day, while the hackers reap the benefits |
Tags: Symbian , Android , OS , Smartphones , Virus
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