Android phone Valérie behaved in a weird way, like he was possessed. The thing had a mind of its own, sending truncated texts and play. Is it a ghost? Or has it been hacked?
Valorie locked the phone when he was in charge so that he would not buy poker chips. One day she forgot to lock and he went into a buying spree. Packages began appearing at his door.
Obviously, someone had access to his credit card number. But how? And what poor Valorie to disable this thief?
The reality is that millions of mobile devices are infected. But the police do not bother with that. Valerie canceled his credit card and remove applications "possessed". Then she crossed her fingers
How mobile phones are attacked
One study showed that 86 percent of Android malware uses "repackaging." Here's how:.?
- Download an application
- decompile.
- Add malware.
- recompile the application.
- resubmit in public circulation following the change of its name.
- Someone else downloads the name change application, and the malicious payload infects their machine.
- repackaging variant, "update", involves the addition of a code tag a malicious payload at a later date.
How can you say to your mobile has been infected?
- He began to behave strangely. Something is out sometimes slightly, sometimes openly, such as the device sends your address book to a foreign IP address. Hang your mobile phone to a WiFi network and see where it sends information to.
- Unfamiliar charges on the bill. Malware on a phone will produce unauthorized charges. The device is connected to an accounting mechanism, which makes it a snap for thieves to send premium SMS text messages or make purchases in-app that cost you money.
How can you protect your mobile?
- Keep the software up to date :. easy to do on iOS, but hard on Android
- Some phones can not be updated; these phones have vulnerabilities of the operating system within them, making them vulnerable to attack. Users end up downloading malware that uses this vulnerability of the operating system to infect the device.
Android vs iOS for security
- iOS beats Android for security against malware.
- Apple has placed restrictions on the functionality of the application (for example, premium SMS messages can not be sent), which is why Android is not as secure against malware as is iOS
- another reason :. the review process of the Android application is not top-notch screening bad applications (but it is improving).
- both Android and iOS to allow your personal data to leak on ad networks. It is not considered malicious since a user may want that to happen.
Scope of the Problem
- The verdict is not quite about it.
- Some say that the problem is limited just third party app vendors and this can be avoided by going to iOS app store or Google Play.
- others believe everyone has a compromised application on their mobile.
- More research is warranted to define the scope of the problem.
Who should protect the user?
- The application maker? The carrier? Or the operating system provider?
- Nobody took the responsibility yet. It's like a "not my problem that you have downloaded a malicious application that we have not written," or, "You wanted it; I delivered it-not my problem. "
- The male is past because the user's protection is expensive.
Solutions Protect your device?
- it would be great if the app store could provide very in-depth screening for all types of malicious actions that applications can perform
- warning :. not in best interest of the platform provider, because they want their store to carry a large number of applications.
- Stores want more and more applications, and better ones, and do not want to slow down this process.
- data can be ensured when communicating via a wireless network with a VPN like Hotspot Shield VPN. All web transactions can be secured via https.
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