In China, an epidemic of a dangerous virus, infecting communicators: according to some, suffered for nearly one million owners of mobile devices.
It is reported that a malicious program gets to a smartphone masquerading as an antivirus application.
Infection occurs when the owner of the device following the link, which can come in a short message.
Once on the device, the virus reads the user information and sends it to hackers. In addition, he is using SMS distributes malicious links and ads, sending messages to the numbers from the phonebook. As for the recipients, in most cases, these messages will seem to be originating from friends, colleagues or relatives, the likelihood that a user click on the link, very high.
Due to numerous reports, including the outgoing premium rate numbers, owners of infected machines are in serious financial losses. It is estimated that the total damage caused by a virus on a daily basis to owners of mobile devices, may reach $ 300 thousand
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