A new worm virus type digital reportedly targeting weaknesses in smart phone operating systems. Worm that infect smartphones can automatically send an SMS message containing malicious links to contact numbers stored in the smartphone.
The worm, named "Selfmite.b" This became the successor to the former of Selfmite.a had spread through the Android APK file.
Excerpted from the website Phone Arena, Selfmite.b can send SMS to all your contact list in the phone automatically without user diketahu. More intelligent than "Selfmite.a" which can only be ordered smartphone to send a text message to 20 contacts in a smartphone.
Selfmite.a works by sending an SMS containing a URL link that has been shortened, which when clicked will make the recipient to install third-party App Store, as Mobogenie. Luckily, security researchers managed to overcome the spread Selfmite.a before vicious breed.
But now, a new worm Selfmite.b works by sending a link to a malicious web site in addition, also performed repeatedly until it could make increasing your phone bill.
Additionally, Selfmite.b now also threatens not only Android users, but also users iOS platform. The worm will send the URL of the website that is dangerous and undesirable users, no matter what operating system is used by the recipient of the SMS.
According to Denis Maslennikov, a security analyst firm AdaptiveMobile, Selfmite.b have sent 150,000 messages for a period of 10 days from 100 devices that have been infected. "The amount is increased a hundred times more when compared to traffic generated by Selfmite.a," Maslennikov so bright.
Currently, the case Selfmite.b been found in countries such as Canada, China, Costa Rica, Ghana, India, Iraq, Jamaica, Mexico, Morocco, Puerto Rico, Russia, Sudan, Syria, United States, Venezuela, and Vietnam. As a precaution, always make sure to download the APK file from a trusted source, seperrti Play Store.
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