It ’s beena tough week for people ’s earphone , and it ’s not getting any better : A Danish security firm ’s find malware that ravages your Android phone with a single textual matter — erasing information or charge rogue calls and schoolbook .
Denmark - based security department business firm Heimdal find the malware , called “ Mazar , ” which ship text subject matter that include an on the face of it harmless multimedia system substance connection to user . Click through , and it downloads Tor to your phone , and then the genuine malware , whose source the Tor software hides . ( By the way , a little reminder for living in the twenty - first century , friends : Do n’t penetrate on school text message links from random sender . )
Heimdal thinks that over 100,000 earphone have received the Mazar text in Denmark , the BBC report , and the house is n’t yet certain if it ’s distribute to other countries .
We ’ve heard ofsuch one - text menacestargeting Android before . Last twelvemonth , a University of Cambridge study found that85 pct of Android devicescould confront at least one crucial security vulnerability . This report is just the latest authority crusher jeopardize the operating system ’s security .
Weirdly , the Modern malware ca n’t penetrate devices using Russian as their default language . set your phone to a foreign terminology seems like an extreme bill when common mother wit should keep you secure .
[ BBC ]
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