According to TOI (Times of India) Cyber security
has alerted about the infectious Trojan virus which
attacks Android-based smart phone users. This
virus is named as “ AndroidSmssend” and it
can acquire as many as four aliases to hoodwink
the user and perpetrate its destructive activities on
a personal Android enabled phone.
Android/SmsSend is a premium service abuser
family malware that arrives bundled with
legitimate Android applications and infects
Android based smartphones.
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“Once infected, it sends text messages
(typically with a link to itself or a
different threat) to a specific number,
typically to numbers on the contact
list and is also capable to send SMS to
premium rate numbers,” the
Computer Emergency Response Team
of India (CERT-In) said in its latest
advisory to Android phone users in
the country.
The virus is so notorious, the agency
said, that it “steals contacts and
pictures, tracks the location, steals
passwords, illegally accesses text
messages, crashes a complete system,
steals personal banking information
when logged in, installs other sort of
spyware and disables firewall and
anti-virus program to defend itself.”
The agency has suggested some counter-measures
in this regard.
“Do not download and install
applications from untrusted sources,
install applications downloaded from
reputed application market only, run
a full system scan on device with
mobile security solution or mobile
anti-virus solution, check for the
permissions required by an
application before installing, exercise
caution while visiting trusted/
untrusted sites for clicking links,
install Android updates and patches
and use device encryption or
encrypting external SD card feature
available with most of the android OS
(operating system),” it said.
And also, avoid using unsecured, unknown Wi-Fi
networks and make a practice of taking regular
backup of the Android device, the advisory said.
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