HeartApp presented itself as a harmless application for dates and has ended up affecting 100,000 phones in just 24 hours . All this was done by a Chinese student of 19 who wanted to test their programming skills and could not think of anything else to create this virus. Basically, sent a SMS to the first 99 contacts of the persons concerned in it a download link included installing the application.
All this happens second plane without the user noticing, while the “real” application (which has no end) calls log data are also sent to the virus. After this, he asks if you want to download a helper application, a “resource bundle”, with which the hacker manages to turn the terminal on a bot can read their SMS, and emulate send false messages in the inbox.
This process is repeated over and over in a few seconds, so the affected growing by the minute, so that in one day (the time that has been detected) has reached 100,000 smartphones and major Chinese operators have blocked over 20 million messages almost nothing.
Why has this happened? The main problem is the lack of Google Play on those lands . Not having an official store and reliable theory, means that users have to resort to Markets third and download APK’s doubtful places for applications therefore usual that have enabled the option to “allow unknown sources”.
The issue may seem that is a bit far, but I’m sure more than one (including myself included) have searched occasion APK’s in Google, forums … either want to try an app, because you are looking for an older version, is a mod or directly because they do not want to pay for it (bad, if you first want to check that convinces you / it is compatible, for that is the period reimbursement).
When we do that, the only thing we risk is cases like this , where our data is committed to the power of Apps modified and treated at best cases can be a shock, but who knows
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