The attackers began distributing programs to disguise them into popular messengers. For this Solve a replacement BleepingingComputer Edition.
ESET security experts talked about the spy programs they called Orered and Tospy. These are dangerous applications that can read data stored on users' smartphones, distributed through APK files on websites on the Internet. According to experts, virus software is pretending to be signals and TOTOK.
The signal is a unified coding Messenger with more than 100 million downloads in the App Store and Google Play. TOTOK is developed in the UAE. Moreover, in 2019, Messenger was deleted from official stores with applications to doubt the UAE government.
At the beginning of the programs that are infected with enough money and users, users are required to provide access to the contact list, SMS and file. According to Eset researchers, this is a normal requirement – this is how all messengers do. However, after activating, virus applications have access to information about smartphones stored by SMS, all files in the device's memory and the list of applications installed.
Android users are recommended to download applications only from official or reliable storage warehouses or directly from the developer's website, they have summarized in the ESET.
At the end of September, the former manager of the American Telecommunications Group, Sprint Joseph Shutsman gave Max. According to him, creating a national messenger is a serious statement of the Russian Federation to build its own protected digital ecosystem.
