On the traditional new year's days, a “superphone virus” called the “x-x-mixer” erupted throughout the country, causing considerable panic. Yesterday, the perpetrators of the mobile phone virus were captured in shenzhen, and it is surprising that the suspect, li chiu, is a 19-year-old college student in the software department of the university of central and south china, motivated not by profit but by showcasing technology。
The daily economic news reporter was informed yesterday by the shenzhen city public security bureau that the virus had affected millions of anjo mobile phone users throughout the country and had caused no economic loss other than communication costs as a result of user group text messages。
The civilian police indicated to journalists that li was facing imprisonment or detention for up to three years for the offence of illegal access to citizen's personal information, and criminal liability for either a single fine. Security experts indicated that the spread of the virus had been curbed, but that text messages were still stored on “infected” user phones and received web-link messages to guard against them。
"i didn't know it was spreading so fast."
According to the shenzhen police, 19-year-old li, a junior student in the software department of china-nam university, went to his father's office in shenzhen during the summer vacation to create this mobile phone horse alone on 24 july for fun purposes and for the purpose of trying to make a nationwide mobile phone software。
The virus, known as the "x-x" virus, has spread rapidly across the country via mobile text messages. Users who receive text messages are able to access cell phone information by clicking on a link to the virus text message site, and automatically send viral text messages containing a malicious web site via the host account, resulting in leaks in the owner's privacy and the depletion of mobile phone fees。
"i didn't mean to spread so fast." li said to the police. According to incomplete statistics, the case concerned beijing, shandong, guangdong and sichuan provinces. In the afternoon of yesterday, official microblogging by the police in a number of provinces and cities throughout the country began to issue precautionary warnings that netizens should not click on downloads of such text messages。
Police officer lu of the shenzhen city public security bureau, who dealt with the case, stated that the virus was transmitted via text messages, which spread rapidly and in a covert manner, and that after the infection of the virus with the mobile phone, it was automatically transmitted via text messages to the people in contact in the register, which induced other users to install the virus, resulting in a geometrical increase in the number of infected people throughout the country, which spreads to the community of friends. As of yesterday, the virus had been sent via text messages and had reached millions of subscribers throughout the country。
Multiple software can be checked
Kim shan network security specialist li tiejun stated to the daily economic news reporter that the mobile phone virus was not capable of causing bad consequences after being monitored by the kimshan security system, and that, given the speed and scale of sms worm transmission, the results of the survey showed that about 5,000 users had downloaded the software nationwide and that some media had not been accurate in their statements。
According to the technical staff of the central emergency operations and movement control centre of the guangdong computer network, the spread of the virus has been effectively curbed by means of, inter alia, virus characterization filtering, double engine scanning, analysis of the key words of the virus's text message, blocking, cutting off the transmission of the virus's text message, and upgrading the virus's database。
Yesterday, security software manufacturers, such as hundreds of thousands of people, kimshan and tunta, released news that the virus could be investigated. However, text messages are still stored on “infected” user phones, and cell phone housekeeper security experts warn that if text messages like “xx (cell phone contact) looks at this + virus package downloading address” are seen, no web link should be made; if the xxshenqi program is found to be running on the phone, the program is deleted manually and the co. Android. Trogogle process is terminated and deleted。
Only in the android system
The virus is known to be spreading only on mobile phones equipped with the android system. The head of the sms explained that the link in the text message began with a cdn and ended with an apk, a content distribution network, an open-source resource management centre, and that apk was an installation package for the android system, since the apk file could only be operated on the anjole mobile phone and the apple iphone and ipad that operated the ios system were not infected with the virus。
There are two main reasons for the selection of anjo, namely, first, that there are currently more than 80 per cent of the users of smartphones and, second, that only anjo is open to third-party software, which constitutes a channel of communication. Apple and microsoft have access to software downloads only on an official application platform, and the android system is open to third-party software, and we should be wary of the risks it poses while enjoying the android facility。
Recent reports issued by the third-party security company blueboxsecurity indicate that the security risks of the android system are related to the way in which the identity of the application is verified. The security company stated that each andre application had its own digital signature, i. E. An id card, and that when an application reveals an id, andre would not go to the owner to verify its authenticity. In other words, cybercriminals can use fake signatures to develop malicious software, thereby infecting user systems。
Responsible editor: zhang dei
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