Approximately 27% of intelligent mobile malware is installed, and their host are unwitting.
In the era of mobile phones, intelligent are not convenient communication tool that can move office, Internet and mobile payment online, fried…Lots of people do not yet know, mobile phoneVirus,Have quietly.
In recent years, because of the mobile phone to leak privacy loss, all kinds of “door” emerge in endlessly.If you are using smart phones (Smartphone), it brings you a fashionable and convenient, but also bring a much higher than normal cell phone the risk and crisis.
Since 2004, the first mobile phone viruses in nokia’s hometown since birth, Finland, by 2010 at the end of June, domestic intercepted phone viruses and malware is more than 1600.
Your phone to virus
“Mobile phone fee is $300 days, all gone. To move up to more than 400, saying that the number of those who send MMS. And my phone number is not in.”Miss li, this ridiculous say experience for Beijing nets qin world technology Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as “network”), the technical personnel chamberlain has commonplace.
Qin is a mobile network security service providers.According to investigation company on 11 Sullivan8 Frost and the first release by 2010 China mobile security market, a white paper on display at the net qin occupy the market of China mobile security 64.8% share.
Chamberlain in qin profession is mobile network anti-virus software developers, he every day many virus samples analysis.”From the beginning, the virus samples are our own intercept, slowly from the cell phone users, we obtain the url became the main source of virus samples.”
Zhang li told reporters that the mobile phone in the Trojan horse, “we call it the” text “, “pirates.This virus often disguised as a mobile applications “system language pack” trick users in ChinesedownloadInstallation.The mobile user poisoning will constantly automatically send MMS, until after the user charges consumption.
Zhang and his colleagues everyday will receive many like miss li such mobile phone users.”She’s not the worst, loss is not big.”In April, the nets qin intercepted a fry virus.This is mainly for mobile phone to fry a software “straight flush”.
After poisoning, investors in mobile phone software, the straight flush login account, the password will be forwarded to the virus by SMS is specified on the phone number of publishers, cause loss of account.It is through the monitoring, the virus of mobile phone users to record account key operate, password.
“Your account without your knowledge, has not belong to you. You can completely to virus publishers of account for any operation.”Chamberlain said.
Data shows that by 2010, in China by the end of June intercepted mobile phone viruses and malware totaled more than 1,600 a day, add 3 ~ 4 kinds of malicious software.
Mobile phone viruses from a simple type has the system, malicious fee, extended to steal, financial hack privacy, eavesdropping monitoring, etc.But, mobile phone viruses can also generate new varieties, evolution.Frost and Sullivan prediction by 2010, China mobile phone viruses and malware number will reach about 2,200 ~ 24 months.
“I have in the virus, which is the first installed on your mobile phone of antivirus software, then kill virus and download relentlessly.”Zhang tells a reporter, this company will need antivirus software development tools “killing” it, for the users.
Virus in the chain 10 billion yuan
Mobile phone viruses, but reporters in this random survey found that no one has ever said mobile phone viruses.
On the net, remove LinYu CEO qin said part of the normal cell phone users are not ordinary mobile due to the outside (operating system, are less vulnerable to a virus attack), there are many intelligent mobile users, even the poisoning are difficult to detect.
LinYu tells a reporter, according to the experiences in the qin dynasty, network security software for mobile phones after installation, 27% of the user in their mobile phones to detect a virus or malicious software.
Compared with the computer virus, mobile phone viruses are more likely to discover.An insider told reporters, and computers, many people have different phone 24 hours, and some on the clock, the virus will sets up during the day and the night has different movements.Therefore, while you were sleeping virus may have the machine by action.
At present, mobile phone viruses are no computer viruses that wide coverage, and smart phones and mobile Internet popularity has relations.Promulgated by the end of 2009, Morgan Stanley in the report on the Internet is expected to move, 2010 smartphone global shipments will be overNotebook.
Add the shipments, net until 2012, smartphone will exceed worldwide PC shipments (including the notebook, Internet and desktop) shipments.
But in China, the number of mobile phone users PC users have more.China Internet network information center (CNNIC) released on July 15, the data show that by the end of 2009 on December, China mobile phone users who already 233 million Internet users, the whole 60.8%.
The power of mobile phone viruses are growing.LinYu tells a reporter, February, was named “MMS skeletons” mobile phone viruses, in more than a month’s time affected people, more than 10 million infections smartphone, cause immediate pecuniary loss of about 2,000 yuan.”The current domestic intelligent mobile phone users in about 0.8 billion ~ 1 million, a single virus influence 20 million people have very ill.”
Recently, the letter of 12321 network and garbage information reporting acceptance, deputy director of the center LiGongCeng standing to the media center: the 2006 began to accept the report, a malicious software began almost no about mobile malware report, but so far, the report of the mobile malware 6 percent.
China mobile Frost and Sullivan in security market, mobile phone viruses are beginning to form large-scale botnet, phone, “black” has been formed in the industry and gradually developing.The personage inside course of study, through the fortress machine built-in malicious software or mobile phone viruses spread on “cost” behavior of black chain, annual income of 10 million yuan.
So-called botnet, refers to the server to control a mobile phone viruses, again through it to other mobile transmit the virus, infection cell phone becomes the new virus publishers.”A botnet is will grow on your own.”
“The production of mobile phone viruses, like computer virus, originally must be some technology lovers, but now more and more interests.
If I get a “botnets”, I can do a few things: first, send SMS, direct fee for profit; second, third, advertising messages sent, indirect gain; third, steal, text, or whether private mobile phone on all kinds of accounts, can further, deep point might even form a value chain: someone special, someone special for implant trojans, some special account for analysis on the bank, the people responsible for money laundering…”LinYu told reporters.
Although others for mobile security market of the future, but the capital have fudged in action.
In April, the nets qin by a $20 million investment risk, and it has obtained before two pens totaling $15 million wind is cast.LinYu says to the reporter, early in 2007, many world famous investment institutions have very good mobile security industry.
China mobile security markets have how old?LinYu to a reporter, they present bill to membership charge 5 yuan/month, nets qin has 35 million active users of this hypothesis, 10 percent of people willing to pay, also can bring to the company 2 million yuan.
Frost and Sullivan to China mobile security market forecast more: at the end of June 2010, China mobile security products has reached 54 million subscribers activated by the end of 2009, more than doubled.Expected 2012, mobile security market will enter the high-speed growth, 2014 users reached 4.34 billion, China will become the world’s largest mobile security market.