security Contractors have alarmed the americans after discovering a ‘software’ pre-installed in some mobile phones with Android platform, that ‘spy’ where are your users, who they talk to and what messages they send. The private information is sent to China every 72 hours, reports The New York Times’.
The scale of the data breach is difficult to estimate, but it is reported that the most affected are owners of cell phones with prepaid plan and models of low cost. The american company BLU Products, which manufactures mobile phones, has confirmed the presence of the function in a harmful to 120,000 cell and had to upgrade the ‘software’ to get rid of it.
The security company that detected the vulnerability, Kryptowire, said the information sent to a chinese server included the content of the messages, contact lists, call logs, and location information, among other data. According to the vice-president of Kryptowire, Tom Karygiannis, the affected users have not been aware of the surveillance and of the existence of the code on their mobile phones.
The response of the creator of the harmful ‘software’
The ‘software’ was developed by the company Shanghai ADUPS Technology Company and their codes are run on more than 700 million mobile phones and other devices. While the us authorities are not sure if this is data collection for publicity reasons or to provide information to the chinese Government, the company claims that the code was developed to mark messages junk and calls of advertising not requested.
In a statement, Shanghai ADUPS Technology Company apologized to its customers and users, and pointed out that the private information from the mobile BLU was not revealed and it was deleted shortly after being received from the devices. The company stresses that responded to the grievances of BLU immediately and took measures to disable the function. In addition, she said that it would cooperate with the BLU and Google to ensure this does not happen in the updated versions of the cell.
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