The age-old curse of personal computers, sooner or later had to overtake and modern smartphones. And caught up. Experts specializing in anti-spam company Cloudmark announced the discovery of the first ever botnet consisting of more than 800 Android-smartphone. Infected devices used to send thousands of short text messages containing spam.
According to available data Cloudmark, identified a botnet consists of a smartphone-zombies who were infected when their users responded to the spam mail with a proposal to install free version of the popular mobile game, in particular Need for Speed Most Wanted. Along with the desired toy downloaded from the server located in Hong Kong, users also get a virus that turns them into smart phones spambots. A malicious program that icon which, of course, nowhere in the operating system does not display automatically sends spam to all phone numbers from your contacts of an infected device.
In Cloudmark note that hackers are still difficult to infect modern mobile gadgets than conventional computers because all the manufacturers of smartphones and tablets, and mobile software developers have learned from the mistakes of the computer age. For this reason, experts say the company discovered a mobile botnet consists of 800 devices. As you know, the Android OS prevent unlimited downloading applications if the user downloads them not out of the store Google Play. In addition, Android is also trying to give the user as much information about the program, which he is going to download. Another thing is that many of these messages are used to nick ignore.
Fans of the same free Need for Speed obviously have to pay the bill for thousands of SMS, which sent out their smart phones without the owners#39; knowledge.
