Around 500,000 Chinese phones would be ge lwa nfecteerd with malware rogue mobile payments. Outside China, the virus is likely to be little damage. The malware is distributed using a Chinese application store.
The malware is spread through mostly erotic applications with evocative names. As a victim, the application installs, it asks the app user to have a number of additional files to download. That is, in principle, not strange; also the necessary games on Android download after installation even files.
After downloading and installing the additional files you are trying the malware administrative privileges. That writes to TrustGo, the company that has the virus discovered. The window for which permission for administrative rights is requested, it is difficult to get, as on the ‘cancel’ button only makes the window re-appears.
The application has once administrative privileges, then users can the software not be able to remove it and the phone may be remotely controlled by the attackers behind the malware. According to SecurityWeek, a half million Chinese with the malware infected.
The virus would be used to create a vulnerability in the mobile payment system of China Mobile to abuse. So would the malware money into online gaming accounts. It would also include the possible numbers of cards are stolen. The applications are not distributed through Google’s own Play Store, but also in China popular application store Gfan.
Malware is on Android a much bigger problem than on iOS and Windows Phone, thanks to the closed structure of the latter two operating systems. Since February, check Google applications in its Play Store advance on malware, after it appeared that the application store apps with rogue components contained. However, the necessary malware is not through the Play Store spread, but through alternative applicatiewinkels.