Cell phone virus has high profits, computer hackers aim at cell phones
Smart mobile phones are increasingly popular actually, but the user should also enjoy the convenience at the same time, concern the security.
Insiders have exposures the trend of the activities of hackers recent, as the 3G coming of age, the hacker's economy transfer into the field of phone field.
Now, the profit of mobile phones virus is higher than the computer viruses, hackers make money from the use of mobile phones of the virus than a computer virus. Such as a computer virus will steal a qq number, an online game account at most, not be able to directly get money, these stolen account must be sold to some business, through commercial companies sell to buyers, whether can sell out keeps a question, this is the computer viruses are faced with the status.
Different with computer virus, mobile phone virus now set up applications to the user via network, the virus is usually made up in some WAP site to the form of a plug-in hiding in some software. once a user download the software, cell phones will be infected, the virus infect the phone, by metered, part of the expenses will be directly in the plug-in, charges of tax money from the phone expense. Each infected phone pay such a fee in per month, it's a considerable profit. You may have stumbled on a strange multimedia message, cell phones may be toxic.
Now some telecom value-added service providers cooperate with hackers, use the code from the service providers, the hackers cooperate with him, share the profit. They can receive a piece of money to three dollars of profit from each cell phone, the internet users is more than 200 million via cell phone, the revenue is very considerable only chance in a million infected user. Those hackers call it the water faucet economy, because this is tantamount to hacker a very regular monthly substantive salary to the computer virus.
Sale of mobile viruses is another way to get profit; some computer providers can't make money from the regular content, and recruit some hacker, program plug-in specially. The plug-in of mighty function can sell 30 thousand dollars to ten thousand. Content providers generalize this plug-ins directly to the WAP, and embedded in some software, once mobile users download, content providers will pay the WAP site one Yuan, Accumulatively in a cell phone number, the more profit of the providers.
Now, mobile field supervision of the virus was still inadequate, so is the people's awareness of prevention. It is only 8% of the mobile phone users install the security protection software, with the huge profits, some hackers take a risk, increases the possibility of toxicity of the smart mobile phones.
For users should better not to the arsy-varsy WAP site, because a lot of poisoning cell phone users are in some of the irregular downloading software from the web site. To buy cell phone at the same time, you'd like to buy a new computer, install their mobile phone with a genuine the anti-virus software, whether the software is to be fully effective or not, but is better than nothing. Stranger's a short letter, a multimedia message never opened randomly. Also don't open Bluetooth at random, preventing account-lost fishing handsets virus into the phone.
Insiders have exposures the trend of the activities of hackers recent, as the 3G coming of age, the hacker's economy transfer into the field of phone field.
Now, the profit of mobile phones virus is higher than the computer viruses, hackers make money from the use of mobile phones of the virus than a computer virus. Such as a computer virus will steal a qq number, an online game account at most, not be able to directly get money, these stolen account must be sold to some business, through commercial companies sell to buyers, whether can sell out keeps a question, this is the computer viruses are faced with the status.
Different with computer virus, mobile phone virus now set up applications to the user via network, the virus is usually made up in some WAP site to the form of a plug-in hiding in some software. once a user download the software, cell phones will be infected, the virus infect the phone, by metered, part of the expenses will be directly in the plug-in, charges of tax money from the phone expense. Each infected phone pay such a fee in per month, it's a considerable profit. You may have stumbled on a strange multimedia message, cell phones may be toxic.
Now some telecom value-added service providers cooperate with hackers, use the code from the service providers, the hackers cooperate with him, share the profit. They can receive a piece of money to three dollars of profit from each cell phone, the internet users is more than 200 million via cell phone, the revenue is very considerable only chance in a million infected user. Those hackers call it the water faucet economy, because this is tantamount to hacker a very regular monthly substantive salary to the computer virus.
Sale of mobile viruses is another way to get profit; some computer providers can't make money from the regular content, and recruit some hacker, program plug-in specially. The plug-in of mighty function can sell 30 thousand dollars to ten thousand. Content providers generalize this plug-ins directly to the WAP, and embedded in some software, once mobile users download, content providers will pay the WAP site one Yuan, Accumulatively in a cell phone number, the more profit of the providers.
Now, mobile field supervision of the virus was still inadequate, so is the people's awareness of prevention. It is only 8% of the mobile phone users install the security protection software, with the huge profits, some hackers take a risk, increases the possibility of toxicity of the smart mobile phones.
For users should better not to the arsy-varsy WAP site, because a lot of poisoning cell phone users are in some of the irregular downloading software from the web site. To buy cell phone at the same time, you'd like to buy a new computer, install their mobile phone with a genuine the anti-virus software, whether the software is to be fully effective or not, but is better than nothing. Stranger's a short letter, a multimedia message never opened randomly. Also don't open Bluetooth at random, preventing account-lost fishing handsets virus into the phone.