Have an Android smartphone? Watch out for suspicious SMS – News 24

Dangerous virus distributed using SMS threatens users with Android devices. Android.Wormle.1.origin is able to include steal data and remove applications. List of its features is substantial.

Android.Wormle.1.origin this worm sent out SMS. When you are on your Android device sends a signal to the servers controlled by hackers. In this way, criminals can make huge damage.

The list of possibilities is given virus Hack. Find there, among others, the ability to send SMS messages, collect and send information from your phone to cybercriminals servers (including SMS, contacts, phone numbers, files, etc.), delete all text messages, and even perform a DDoS attack.

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How to defend against Android.Wormle.1.origin? Pay attention to the SMS message with a suspicious link. Unfortunately, the virus is able to send out text messages to all of our contacts, because the sender of a message may unconsciously familiar. According to Doctor Web SMS were sent to 14 thousand. members from 20 countries and spread very quickly.

The virus creates a shortcut on the main screen. We find it in the application list system as “com.driver.system.”