Hundreds of thousands of Android-devices in China were infected SMS-trojan in one day. It took place on Saturday, August 2, when China celebrated Valentine's Day, reports SecurityLab . According to experts, "Kaspersky Lab" on the actions of "malware" affected more than 500,000 devices. Chinese editions claim twice as much infected smartphones.
As the expert said Zhang Whigs, a new virus, dubbed Trojan.AndroidOS.Xshqi.a, consists of two components: the backdoor and propagation mechanism. As soon as he gets on the device distribution mechanism sends all the users of the phone book spam victims, urging them to install a Trojan. This is followed by installing a backdoor Backdoor.AndroidOS.Trogle.a.
Backdoor asks the user to register the program allegedly asking at the same time to enter your personal data. An attacker is able to execute arbitrary commands on the infected device.
Zhang said that the typical Trojan managed to be spread only through the naivety of users.Using the fact that in China celebrated Valentine's Day, an attacker convinced hundreds of thousands of Chinese people voluntarily install "malware" on their devices.
Chinese authorities have arrested the creator of the Trojan. They found 19-year-old student named Li, who studies programming in one of the Chinese universities.