HummingBad, the malware of Android that already affects 85 million telephones

Them virus or malware are one of the big dangers for our phones that exist today. The information we keep on our phones is currently exposed to malicious interventions by real mafia seeking to do with the control of your mobile phone to obtain economic benefits and sensitive information to then sell it on the black market. Now a new malware called HummingBad is making is in a real threat for more than 85 million of phones.

Viruses were formerly limited to delete data from our computer, to show screens industrial fly, to alter the mapping of your keyboard or other threats more or less acceptable, but nowadays the sophistication of the processes that are going on hackers is amazing, and can lead to total control of our phone in the shade.

HummingBad, the greatest threat to Android phones

Check Point Software Technologies, the largest provider of specialized security globally has made public a report which details that they have had access to the internal processes of Yingmob, a group of Chinese Crooks, best-known for being the fearsome HummingBad in Android malware writers. This malware has been discovered by Check Point, which has warned of the lethal activity of this malware to our phones. In fact point out that this malware is capable of generate income advertising fraudulent and installs apps dangerous and with late malicious in our phones without us have knowledge any of this.

Most troubling of which revealed Check Point about this malware is that its development is carried out in a perfectly legal within china business structure, since Yingmob operates as a company’s website and consists of 25 employees who work on independent groups to create malicious code in HummingBad. And not seems the first work of this type from Yingmob, but also would be behind the known malware for iOS Yispecter, which certainly makes even more disturbing this threat.

Relationship between HummingBad and Yispecter

Check Point has detailed four points that demonstrate the close relationship between the HummingBad and Yispecter created by Yingmob:

• Yispecter used Yingmob company certificates to be installed on devices
• HummingBad and Yispecter share addresses of server
• HummingBad repositories contain documentation of QVOD, a pornographic video to iOS created by Yispecter player
• Both installed apps fraudulent to get income

Without doubt a threat very seriously, which not only affects more than 85 million phones around the world, controlling all their movements, but it is growing and already generates fraudulent advertising revenue worth no less than $300,000 a month.

It more disturbing of all is the impunity with which operate these groups, that with its own activity malicious get finance is to improve its processes. More that you should never keep our phone security and take all possible precautions with HumminBad, which is now at its peak of activity.

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