rssberita.com - A digital virus (worm) reported a new type of targeting weaknesses in smart phone operating systems. If infected by this worm, the smartphone can automatically send an SMS message containing malicious links to contacts numbers stored in the smartphone.
The worm, named "Selfmite.b" This became the successor to the former Selfmite.a had spread through the Android APK file.
Excerpted from the website KompasTekno Phone Arena (10/10/2014), this Selfmite.b can send SMS to all contacts in the phone list automatically without user diketahu. More clever than "Selfmite.a" which can only be ordered smartphone to send a text message to 20 contacts in a smartphone.
Selfmite.a formerly worked by sending an SMS containing a URL link that has been shortened, which when clicked will make SMS recipient App Store to install a third party, such as Mobogenie. Luckily, the security researchers managed to overcome the spread Selfmite.a before the vicious breed.
But now, a new worm Selfmite.b works by sending a link to a malicious web site in addition, also be done repeatedly until the pulse can drain the phone.
In addition, Selfmite.b now also threatens not only Android users, but also users of iOS platform. The worm sends a malicious web site URL and unwanted 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 during the 10 days of the 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.
At present, the case has been found Selfmite.b in countries such as Canada, China, Costa Rica, Ghana, India, Iraq, Jamaica, Mexico, Morocco, Puerto Rico, Russia, Sudan, Syrian, United States, Venezuela, and Vietnam.
As a precaution, always make sure to download the APK file from a trusted source, seperrti Google Play Store.
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