Employees of companies developing anti-virus software, said about the discovery of another Trojan horse for devices running the mobile OS Android. New development of hackers contains code that, unbeknownst to the owner commits mailing smartphone for premium SMS center, which was withdrawn from the account holder a decent amount of money. Just trying to block HippoSMS notified mobile operators on a premium-rate number.
To spread the malware attackers use several informal directory of software for Android. Currently, two versions of the Trojan analyzed HippoSMS, one of which is intended for U.S. residents, and the second for Chinese users. The difference between versions is different numbers of premium services for sending SMS, as well as in the filters alerts from mobile operators.
For example, the Chinese version HippoSMS, sends SMS to premium numbers of content providers of China, as well as blocking all incoming messages from numbers beginning with 10 are reserved for Chinese operators to send notifications to their customers.
Experts in security say they go through the procedure of moderation in the official Android application Market'e have had no chance, for this reason the program is distributed in the "illegal" software catalogs.
Earlier reports have already appeared on two Trojans named «DroidDream» and «Plankton», who managed to get to the official Android Market. Currently these programs are successfully removed from the directory software. Also, experts in security have noticed an increase in the activity of SMS fraud in European and Asian countries, including Russia, China and Ukraine.
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