Allinformation.com- According to reports computing security firm Trend Micro, recently there has been a malicious cyber attack against more than 20 thousand users of smartphones in South Korea. Even the same kind of cyber attacks has been detected extends to China.
From the search traces of attacks, experts Trend Micro threat uncovered that the cyber criminals responsible behind a series of such attacks is an active member in underground forums that take advantage of pirated applications, especially pirated version of a wide range of gaming applications popular.
The perpetrators of cyber attacks work by repackaging applications pirated games and insert malicious code in it, and then distribute it through a third-party app stores, websites and forums Bittorent internet.
Cyber criminals know that consumers in Asia so fond of mobile games. The increasing use of mobile devices fishing activity cyber criminals to make the user an easy target their action which has now become more and more aggressive," said Paul Oliveria, Technical Communications Manager of Trend Labs, Trend Micro through press releases published.
Once traced, cyber attacks aimed at stealing a variety of users' personal data is derived from IP berlamatkan internet network in Japan. While the DNS server that is used is located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This is done to trick those who want to dismantle their cyber crime.
One of the easiest and most effective way to present a series of protection and defense against attack is through the use of mobile security applications reliable, "said Oliveria.
In order to protect users from the rise of cyber attacks that target mobile users, Trend Micro launched Dr. Safety, which is a free mobile application that has been equipped also a unique feature that serves to provide recommendations on the application game.
The danger, the results of an online poll conducted by Trend Micro, revealed that respondents from Singapore (58%), Malaysia (44%) and Thailand (44%) admitted that they did not use mobile security applications and mobile anti virus personal gadget .
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