Cottage 12306 Application of the Spring Festival train ticket pre-sale bad push ads

A few days ago, the Spring Festival train ticket purchase ticket officially started, "Rob Ticket" again to walk the Heat network. There are many ways to rob a ticket, 12306 site reservations, telephone reservations, on-site or consignment lines to buy, and so on, and with the rise of smartphones mobile phone online ticketing has become a trend.

Reporter found in the major third-party electronic market there are a large number of "12306" mobile phone booking software, however, according to people familiar with the railway administration 12306 mobile phone client software is still not officially on line, these named "12306 booking assistant" "12306 train Ticket" applications are Shanzhai goods.

Figure: Network existence a large number of cottage 12306 applications

Reporter from a well-known electronic market to download the "12306 booking assistant" found that the application after installation will be frequently in the Mobile Phone Notification Bar window to promote other mobile applications, comparable to spam messages, and can not find the closure method. In addition, these applications require users to directly login to the 12306 official account password, involving user account security and privacy disclosure issues.

Faced with so many "12306 cottage applications", mobile security experts remind users to try not to install the use, because the risk of their existence is difficult to assess, or patiently waiting for the official genuine 12306 mobile phone client online as well. At the same time, he also advised users to use professional mobile phone security software to intercept these notification bar malicious ads.

It is reported that Tencent mobile phone Butler (Android) in the "utility" has "advertising interception" function, as long as the user's phone has been obtained root permissions can be opened this function. Open the ad interception, the reporter's mobile phone in the first time to receive malicious ads, will prompt the user to deal with, if the choice of "intercept later", these malicious ads will be accurate interception, will not continue to be in the notification bar pop-up harassment users.

Image: Notification bar ads blocked by mobile phone security software

The current various types of Shanzhai 12306 applications, the reporter downloaded the application of malicious advertising harassment user behavior, then other cottage applications will steal user account password, or peeping user privacy? These are unknown risks, so mobile security experts remind users, the Spring Festival mobile phone "grab ticket" Home mo Impatient, use cottage 12306 application to be careful.