New Virus Attack in Chinese SmartPhone in China

MORE than 1 million Chinese mobile phone users have unwittingly sent spam messages, costing them around 2 million yuan (US$300,000) a day, after their phones were recently infected by malware. Reported in Shanghai Daily this virus is sweeping across China's smartphones affecting over 1 million users and turning them into zombie spam bots.
A variant of that virus also was used to attack Android smartphones, posing as a media player.

The "zombie" virus, hidden in a bogus anti-virus application, can send the phone user's SIM card information to hackers, who then remotely control the phone to send URL links, usually pay-per-click ads, in text messages to contacts in the user's address book. Users who click the links will also get infected, thus causing the virus to spread rapidly. 
This replicating mobile phone virus hit 1 million users in their pockets in the first week of September, according to a report by the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team Center. Other similar viruses have since appeared. A mobile phone safety detection company in Beijing uncovered 10 similar pieces of malware since September, some of which are able to evade anti-virus software.


The virus is similar to the Troj/SymbSms, a malware which infected Russian smartphones earlier this year. 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.
Discovering the hackers behind the virus is still proving difficult but Government is struggling to find the source of the virus which is said to be very clever in the way that it evades most anti-virus programs available to users.

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