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500,000 Android Devices Infected in Six Hours by SMS Worm in China

07
Aug
2014

The Chinese Valentines Day was on August 2 this year and it was the perfect opportunity for cybercriminals to conduct nefarious activities, as they delivered an SMS worm for Android that spread faster than love, affecting a total of 500,000 devices in about six hours.Security researchers analyzing a sample observed that the malware contained two modules, one for distributing the threat (XXshenqi.apk) and another for performing the malicious activity (Trogoogle.apk).Propagation is carrie…

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