Kaspersky: Beware of "toxic" QR codes

Recently, the well-known information security manufacturer Kaspersky released the 2011 third quarter of the IT threat Evolution report, showing not only the enterprise, the organization suffered many unknown hackers and hacker organizations attack, individual users also face a huge network threat, mainly for mobile devices, the number of malicious programs is increasing at an alarming rate.

Especially in the last quarter, Android-phone malware accounted for 40% of all mobile phone malware in 2011, confirming that the Android platform has become the primary target of malicious program attacks.

Analysts at Kaspersky Labs have long anticipated that cyber criminals will find malicious software that can be used in Android to gain illegal benefits. And all this happened did not take a long time, July a ZITMO family Androma was detected, the Trojan can work with the desktop of the same kind of Trojan Trojan-spy.win32.zeus collaboration, so that network criminals to avoid many network silver system used double security Review mechanism.

It is particularly noteworthy that malware can also invade mobile devices in the most unexpected way, for example, through QR codes. QR code is also a kind of barcode, but it has more powerful storage ability. Cyber criminals disguise the SMS Trojan as a common Android software by incorporating malicious links into QR codes. After the QR code is scanned, the mobile device will automatically download the malicious files, and through the form of SMS, a large number of spread.

This also indicates that the operation of the malicious program is becoming more and more complex, even using some first Test, after the practice of the method. The original harmless QR code is being used by cyber criminals to hide malware. Therefore, the majority of users to improve security awareness, and install Professional mobile device security software.