Chinese malware has infected 10 million android devices

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Specialists assumed that more than 10 million android devices all over the world are infected by a virus caused by a Chinese company. A cybersecurity specialist at Check Point has discovered the malware which is called HummingBad.

Check point has published a report that shown that the malware contains multistage attack chain with two major components which infect androids when people surf certain websites.

The first part tries to gain root access on the device using rootkit; a software that seize various weaknesses, if the access went successful, attackers will get a full access to the device, otherwise, the second part will request the HummingBad system-level permission of the user to update their device system without letting the user notice that it’s a fake one.

As reported by Check-Point, Yingmob, a mobile advertising agency located in Beijing is behind the malware. It employs teams who develop legal tracking and ad platforms. The development Team for Overseas Platform is responsible for developing the malware components.

Cybersecurity mentioned in its report that Yinmob was using the malware in order to generate about $402,000 as profits from clicking ads as well as downloading apps.

How can you notice if your device is infected ?!

Fortunately, cybersecurity experts tend to detect the malware using different protective software such as : Check Point’s Zone Alarm, 360 Security’s Antivirus Boost, Avira Antivirus Security. These softwares aim to notify users of the existence of bad actors while using their devices

How can you respond to this Malware?

This malware becomes a reason to worry about on the coming days, so here are few methods to follow in order to get rid of the last.

Doing a persistent search of the malware and remove it manually. This is useful for experts in mobile apps.
The safest option yet it might be annoying since you’re going to lose all your data which is a factory reset of the phone