Police hold man over Android infection
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POLICE in Shenzhen, in southern China’s Guangdong Province, have held a man in connection with creating and spreading a smartphone virus that steals money from phone users and hacks into their address books to further spread the infection.
The virus is said to have infected Android phones across China over the weekend.
Police held the suspect, surnamed Li, on Saturday evening, after receiving reports of the virus from mobile phone users across the city and from Shandong and Sichuan provinces, the China News Service reported yesterday.
Shenzhen police said they were still questioning Li, the report said.
Victims receive a text message from an address book contact asking them to check out a link. If they click on it, they become infected.
Their phone credit is stolen by the virus, which also sends the same text message with the link to all the numbers in their address book.
China Mobile announced that the virus had affected phones with the Android operating system over the weekend.
It spread across Guangdong on Friday night, leading the province’s public security authority to issue an emergency response in a bid to uncover the source, the report said.
An engineer with China Mobile in Guangdong said the links normally begins with CDN and end with the suffix APK — an Android file format.
China Mobile advised Android users to install antivirus software from gd.10086.cn/safe which will search for and eliminate the virus.
The company also said that it is blocking text messages containing the link.
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