አዎ እኔም የእብድ የቃውስ የሸርሙጣ ትርጉም ለነፃነት የሚታገሉ ኢትዮጵያዊነትን የሚሰብክ ግፈኞችን የሚታገል…ለኢትዮጵያዊነት የሚኖር ከሆነ አዎ እብድ ነኝ አዎ ቀውስ ነኝ አዎ ሸርሙጣነኝ እላቸዋለው፡፡
BERLIN (AP) — A cheap brand of
Chinese-made smartphones carried by major online retailers comes
preinstalled with espionage software, a German security firm said
Tuesday.
G Data Software said it found
malicious code hidden deep in the propriety software of the Star N9500
when it ordered the handset from a website late last month. The find is
the latest in a series of incidents where smartphones have appeared
preloaded with malicious software.
G Data spokesman Thorsten
Urbanski said his firm bought the phone after getting complaints about
it from several customers. He said his team spent more than a week
trying to trace the handset’s maker without success.
“The manufacturer is not mentioned,” he said. “Not in the phone, not in the documentation, nothing else.”
The Associated Press found the
phone for sale on several major retail websites, offered by an array of
companies listed in Shenzhen, in southern China. It could not
immediately find a reference to the phone’s manufacturer.
G Data said the spyware it found
on the N9500 could allow a hacker to steal personal data, place rogue
calls, or turn on the phone’s camera and microphone. G Data said the
stolen information was sent to a server in China.
Bjoern Rupp, chief executive of
the Berlin-based mobile security consultancy firm GSMK, said such cases
are more common than people think. Last fall, German cellphone service
provider E-Plus found malicious software on some handsets delivered to
customers of its Base brand.
“We have to assume that such incidents will increasingly occur, for different commercial and other reasons,” said Rupp.
BERLIN (AP) — A cheap brand of
Chinese-made smartphones carried by major online retailers comes
preinstalled with espionage software, a German security firm said
Tuesday.
G Data Software said it found
malicious code hidden deep in the propriety software of the Star N9500
when it ordered the handset from a website late last month. The find is
the latest in a series of incidents where smartphones have appeared
preloaded with malicious software.
G Data spokesman Thorsten
Urbanski said his firm bought the phone after getting complaints about
it from several customers. He said his team spent more than a week
trying to trace the handset’s maker without success.
“The manufacturer is not mentioned,” he said. “Not in the phone, not in the documentation, nothing else.”
The Associated Press found the
phone for sale on several major retail websites, offered by an array of
companies listed in Shenzhen, in southern China. It could not
immediately find a reference to the phone’s manufacturer.
G Data said the spyware it found
on the N9500 could allow a hacker to steal personal data, place rogue
calls, or turn on the phone’s camera and microphone. G Data said the
stolen information was sent to a server in China.
Bjoern Rupp, chief executive of
the Berlin-based mobile security consultancy firm GSMK, said such cases
are more common than people think. Last fall, German cellphone service
provider E-Plus found malicious software on some handsets delivered to
customers of its Base brand.
“We have to assume that such incidents will increasingly occur, for different commercial and other reasons,” said Rupp.
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