Android-based smartphones in China are infected with a trojan SMSZombie


The number of users of smartphones and tablets running the platform Android, growing daily, and with them increases and the number of malicious programs for mobile operating system from Google. Recently it became known that the new Trojan SMSZombie able to hit about 500,000 Android-gadgets in China.
The threat was discovered by the developer of antivirus software for Android, the company TrustGo, who immediately noted two features of Trojan: First, get rid of it is rather difficult, and second, it is only spread in China. It is reported that people infected with the virus after downloading “live” wallpaper from the app store Google Play.
First SMSZombie was discovered on August 8. According TrustGo, after installing malware user to set the Android System Service. Programs to access an administrator and then starting a mobile payment via SMS. Thus detect anything was extremely difficult because the virus automatically delete sent messages.

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