Becarefull to all Android smartphone users
Be careful to all Android smartphone users
If the victim does not have an unlimited testing plan, the next phone bill a whopper, because each infected phone can blow thousands of viral text messages a day.
Android smartphone users beware. Spam text messages began circulating that the handset can infect so constant virulent text messages to thousands of live phone per day.
This discovery comes as hackers continue to explore the Android platform, especially for security holes immediately expected in 2013.
"The mobile threat continues to grow at a very fast pace with threats only increased in complexity," said Dan Hoffman, mobile security researcher at networking company Juniper Networks.
Messaging security firm Cloud mark Research recently discovered a malicious spam campaign that sends text messages to Android users, offering free versions of Need for Speed Most Wanted, Angry Birds Star Wars, Grand Theft Auto and other popular games.
By installing the free app, the user is actually a hidden program connecting their handset to a command and control server in Hong Kong downloading says Cloud mark researcher Andrew Conway. The Hong Kong server then sends the handset a list of 50 numbers, viral copies of messages and instructions to start sending messages to each of the numbers.
Former Android spammers to install and activate dozens of SIM card - the chip at the heart of mobile phones - and each card has served as an individual spam-rays phone. But it can be expensive, and airlines are better able to detect and block such campaigns.
Using contaminated Android phones, instead, is related to how spammers use compromised computers to distribute spam.
"If they get malware on a variety of devices, and indeed enough phones, so it's hard for them all to be discovered and deactivated, which greatly improves the economy of spammers," Conway said.
The victim can lose in two ways. If they do not have an unlimited texting plan, the next phone bill a whopper. It takes about 65 seconds automatically text 50 phone, and Hong Kong server sends a new set of numbers. So every infected phone can blow thousands of viral text messages a day.
What's more, the malicious program also blocks incoming messages from a person who is not on the user's contact list. "So the telephone company or a friend can not text you back and say," Stop sending spam "," Conway says.
In such cases, the carrier decide unilaterally terminate your text messages can be, he says.
Cloudmark estimates that only a few thousand Android smartphones are infected, although damaged text messages continue to circulate. More troubling is the idea that this attack would be a precursor of things to come in 2013, especially for Android users.
Apple, Microsoft and Research In Motion smartphones are much less focused. That's because Google developed Android as an open system that makes it easy for manufacturers of mobile phones and web application developers to jump on board. Android has become the world's most popular smartphone platform. But it has also become the biggest hacker target.
Juniper Networks has followed a 350% increase in malignant and invasive apps aimed mainly Android users in the 12 months to the end of October. "Attacks are becoming more vicious and illegal," said Juniper Hoffman.
Conway recommends Android users must strictly follow the official application store, Android Market and unsolicited offers that arrive via SMS to ignore. If you have a suspicious text message offering, send a text message to 7726, a free service provided by transport companies to eliminate spam.
Google Play is a "99.99% reliable" because the search giant has been on high alert for hackers and break fast solutions.
"You are much safer than Google Play from another source, particularly from Asia," says Conway. "If an offer sounds too good to be true, then it is a fake."
If the victim does not have an unlimited testing plan, the next phone bill a whopper, because each infected phone can blow thousands of viral text messages a day.
Android smartphone users beware. Spam text messages began circulating that the handset can infect so constant virulent text messages to thousands of live phone per day.
This discovery comes as hackers continue to explore the Android platform, especially for security holes immediately expected in 2013.
"The mobile threat continues to grow at a very fast pace with threats only increased in complexity," said Dan Hoffman, mobile security researcher at networking company Juniper Networks.
Messaging security firm Cloud mark Research recently discovered a malicious spam campaign that sends text messages to Android users, offering free versions of Need for Speed Most Wanted, Angry Birds Star Wars, Grand Theft Auto and other popular games.
By installing the free app, the user is actually a hidden program connecting their handset to a command and control server in Hong Kong downloading says Cloud mark researcher Andrew Conway. The Hong Kong server then sends the handset a list of 50 numbers, viral copies of messages and instructions to start sending messages to each of the numbers.
Former Android spammers to install and activate dozens of SIM card - the chip at the heart of mobile phones - and each card has served as an individual spam-rays phone. But it can be expensive, and airlines are better able to detect and block such campaigns.
Using contaminated Android phones, instead, is related to how spammers use compromised computers to distribute spam.
"If they get malware on a variety of devices, and indeed enough phones, so it's hard for them all to be discovered and deactivated, which greatly improves the economy of spammers," Conway said.
The victim can lose in two ways. If they do not have an unlimited texting plan, the next phone bill a whopper. It takes about 65 seconds automatically text 50 phone, and Hong Kong server sends a new set of numbers. So every infected phone can blow thousands of viral text messages a day.
What's more, the malicious program also blocks incoming messages from a person who is not on the user's contact list. "So the telephone company or a friend can not text you back and say," Stop sending spam "," Conway says.
In such cases, the carrier decide unilaterally terminate your text messages can be, he says.
Cloudmark estimates that only a few thousand Android smartphones are infected, although damaged text messages continue to circulate. More troubling is the idea that this attack would be a precursor of things to come in 2013, especially for Android users.
Apple, Microsoft and Research In Motion smartphones are much less focused. That's because Google developed Android as an open system that makes it easy for manufacturers of mobile phones and web application developers to jump on board. Android has become the world's most popular smartphone platform. But it has also become the biggest hacker target.
Juniper Networks has followed a 350% increase in malignant and invasive apps aimed mainly Android users in the 12 months to the end of October. "Attacks are becoming more vicious and illegal," said Juniper Hoffman.
Conway recommends Android users must strictly follow the official application store, Android Market and unsolicited offers that arrive via SMS to ignore. If you have a suspicious text message offering, send a text message to 7726, a free service provided by transport companies to eliminate spam.
Google Play is a "99.99% reliable" because the search giant has been on high alert for hackers and break fast solutions.
"You are much safer than Google Play from another source, particularly from Asia," says Conway. "If an offer sounds too good to be true, then it is a fake."
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