Mobile virus has infected 14 million Android-devices

Experts have estimated the profits that CopyCat brought its creators $1.5 million.

The virus attacked the CopyCat Android device. Now more than 14 million users worldwide became victims of a hacker attack.

This was reported by the press service of the American company “Check Point Software Technologies”, which deals with it security.

The program with the virus producers to spread using MMS messages. Getting into the software of the mobile device, the virus chooses randomly the Android contacts and sends them to the image. The user who opened the message, it automatically loads the application with the extension apk. The owner of the phone for a long time did not see any changes in his work, and the antivirus programs can not cope with the threat.

The developers of the CopyCat get a lot of revenue from advertising in the infected phones. Now the authors of the malware has been enriched by $ 1.5 million.

Most of the hacker attack suffered by the inhabitants of South-East Asia. You know that 280 million Americans are victims of the virus CopyCat.

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