Mobile virus increased 193% 8 million smartphones last year

A recent release of the "2010 Chinese mainland Region Mobile Security Report" shows that the 2010 total number of mobile phone viruses more than 2500, an increase of 193%, the cumulative infection of 8 million more mobile phones.　　68.6% of mobile phone users are facing mobile security threats, according to a 2010 study by the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, "perceptions and responses to mobile security threats by smartphone users".　　Reporter Shao Yi why the most mobile virus infection is smart phone? Why does the mobile phone virus have a big way? Shihong, an associate professor at the State Key laboratory of network and exchange of posts and telecommunications, said, because smartphones are getting more and more.　　Global sales of smartphones in 2010 grew by 74.4% to 306.2 million, according to data released this month by IDC, the US market research firm. A smartphone is a mobile phone with an operating system. Why does it infect the virus?　　To answer this question, first of all to understand what is a mobile phone virus. Professor Zou said that previously said mobile virus mainly refers to the infectious, destructive process, now more meaning is malicious software, and the software requires operating system to run, "if the virus is likened to a seed, then its poor performance needs a field to show, this field is the operating system." Supurao, deputy researcher at the State Key Laboratory of Information security, said that before the advent of smartphones, the traditional mobile phone function is relatively single, the hardware dependence on large, mobile phone function expansion is extremely troublesome. From another point of view, the development of mobile phone malicious code (that is, mobile phone virus) is also very troublesome.　　After the emergence of a large number of smartphones, improve the mobile phone function scalability, reduce the development of mobile phone software, but also reduce the difficulty of research and development of mobile phone virus, this is a double-edged sword.　　Why does the cell phone virus not like to eat "Apple"? At present, the market mainstream mobile phone mainly uses four kinds of operating system: 1. Symbian (Symbian).　　This is the current mobile phone field operating system in the eldest, because of Nokia, Samsung support, occupy an absolute market share. 2. Android (Android).　　By the joint development of Google and the Open cell Phone Alliance, the main users of HTC, Motorola, Philips and so on, the 2010 rapid development. 3. Apple.　　Powerful Up-and-comer, a great catch up with the predecessor. 4.windows Mobile.　　This is the operating system that Microsoft specifically launches for mobile phones, now the main supporter is Dopod.　　In addition, there are Linux smartphone operating systems (some Motorola and Philips support), Palm (BlackBerry) Smartphone operating system, and so on.　　Professor Zou said, generally speaking, a mobile phone virus only for one or two operating systems, different operating systems between the virus will not "drop". "The more people an operating system uses, the greater the threat, and the faster and wider the speed and scope of the virus, if it is discovered," he said. For instance, most Europeans use the Symbian OSMobile phones, so once the virus outbreaks, it is easy to spread. In recent years, the world's well-known mobile phone virus infection happened basically in Europe.　　"Hangzhou Unicom information expert Guzhijian said. Consumers in mainland China also prefer Nokia and Samsung handsets, does that mean they are more susceptible to virus infection? The answer is yes. According to the "2010 China Mobile phone Security Report", 69.1% of mobile virus outbreaks in the Symbian platform.　　Last year's iphone, an outbreak of mobile phone viruses accounted for only 0.1% of the total. "It's easy to understand that in the 2010, although Apple sold very lively, but the total sales in the world is only 46 million units, less than half of Nokia smartphone sales." But we believe that with the further expansion of market share, mobile virus will be more and more like to eat ' Apple '.　　Professor Zou said.　　What is the profit chain behind the mobile phone virus? The world's first mobile phone virus is called Vbs.timofonica. It was found in Spain in June 2000. The virus sends abusive text messages to any user in the system via the operator's mobile system, so it is also known as a "message bomb".　　But this kind of handset virus does not give the user the handset security to bring the actual damage. "Early mobile viruses are mostly about technical ostentation," he said. But now the main purpose of the mobile virus has shifted to a profit-driven.　　"said Professor Shihong. In 2010, for example, a mobile phone virus called "zombie" broke out in mainland China, infecting 1 million of handsets in just a week, according to the National Internet Emergency Center. Henan, Beijing and other land users reflect the virus caused by the increase in mobile phone charges.　　The cell phone of the virus is a zombie cell phone, it will, according to the hacker's meaning, secretly send the message with the virus link, quietly to the colleagues, friends and other people's mobile phone also into a zombie phone, and these new zombie mobile phones, they will turn other people's mobile phones into newer zombie mobile phones. "This is the spread of a mobile phone virus with obvious economic benefits. We found that a large part of the text messages sent by the zombie virus cell phone were text messages. Ordinary channel to send a text message needs to spend 3 cents each time to send a general 100,000, the cost is 3000 yuan. and through the insertion of a zombie virus in the text message, the same cost of 3000 yuan, send the text message will be automatically forwarded by the surge, channel operators can be equivalent to the original number of times the profit. Professor Zou said.