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卡巴斯基实验室:手机游戏下载无形中提升了数字犯罪风险

发布时间:2010-05-20 06:23:20 Tags:,,

来自DNA孟买的新闻,智能手机和手机游戏无形中提高了数字犯罪比例,用户在下载免费软件或者相关游戏应用的时候可能会被数字犯罪者盯上从而带来不必要的损失。

比如卡巴斯基实验室发布的这款游戏3D Anti-Terrorist,属于免费下载,并且只占1.5M的小空间,但是会伴随着形成一个名为reg.exe文件,Denis Masllenikov认为这事实上这就是一个特洛伊木马,并且它的安装无声无息,用户根本不会留意到。

手机游戏

手机游戏

去年卡巴斯基实验室同样监测到了类似的木马病毒,iporn player,也是以免费的形式出现的。

IT专家还是建议尽量不要从未知的网站去下载软件或者文字,这样可以有效避免被感染。

Denis Masllenikov表示,数字罪犯可以在任何地方把控你被感染后的智能手机,你将成为该罪犯的牺牲品。

手机的防毒意识远远没有PC来得谨慎,而这也是至为重要的。

智能手机

智能手机

Mumbai: Beware smart phone users. You may not be doing a smart thing when you download a free software or a mobile game on your cellphone. For cyber criminals have now zeroed in on you.Unknown to you, your mobile phone might start dialling premium rate numbers across the globe.

Blame it on a self-launching Trojan that has dropped into your cellphone when you were downloading a free software or a game. Cyber criminals, who are controlling such Trojans, will be dialling the numbers, but you will be the one footing the bill.

A recent research by Kaspersky Laboratories has found that a new game, called 3D Anti-Terrorist, is often popping up on many websites. Windows mobile smartphone users can download it for free. It takes up just 1.5MB space, and comes with a file named reg.exe.

Kaspersky lab expert Denis Masllenikov has said in a report that the file is actually a Trojan that calls premium rate numbers across the globe. It gets installed the moment a user completes downloading the game on his smartphone.

Masllenikov’s report says that the Trojan has been made by Russian virus writers. Once installed, it launches itself. It was detected last month, and ever since it has been found that calls from infected phones are being made to six premium rate numbers across the globe.

Last year too, the Kaspersky labs had detected a similar kind of Trojan. It came with a free software called iporn player, which promised smartphone users access to various porn sites. Once the player was installed, the Trojan started calling premium rate numbers in places like Austria, Lichtenstein, Burkina Faso, Switzerland and Nauru.

The bills of the infected phones ran up to huge amounts, and the users came to know of it only after receiving the bills.

IT experts say that the only way to avoid smart phones being infected by such viruses and Trojans is not to download software or other files from unknown websites. The users should only download software from phone manufacturers’ official websites.

Masllenikov said, “Cyber criminals can target any person’s phone at any location. If smart phones are widely used in a particular country, users there are more likely to fall prey to this.”

Tenchnology evangelist Vijay Mukhi told DNA, “The premium rate calls are mostly made to pay-per-call international numbers and friendship lines. There could be a person somewhere in the world, who has actually subscribed to this service after being offered heavy discounts on the existing market rates. He will be making the calls, but the charges for them will be paid by the user whose phone has been infected.”


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