The company’s specialists AdaptiveMobile warn of a new version of the worm Selfmite, infecting mobile devices running the operating system Android.
The original modification Selfmite was detected in June. After penetration into the smartphone or tablet with support for cellular communications program starts to send SMS to contacts found to offer a file download APK (Android Package). Agreeing recipient receives a text message, the malicious code.
The first version Selfmite SMS sent out only 20 rooms. New modification is trying to send a message to all contacts in the address book, and to do it repeatedly. According to estimates, only with hundreds of infected devices in the last week and a half was sent to 150 thousand. Messages. If the tariff is not the owner of the gadget provides unlimited SMS, financial losses can be very noticeable.
In addition, in the course of infection Selfmite creates on the “home” screen gadget two icons. They are on the web sites offering various paid services and applications that attackers are trying to cash in on his creation.
Geography Selfmite spread is quite wide: the infected device found in 16 countries, including Russia. However, in a large-scale epidemic of the worm is still not able to because they do not exploit the vulnerability of Android and requires immediate download to install a potential victim.
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