{"id":5739,"date":"2012-08-20T12:28:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T17:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5739"},"modified":"2012-08-20T22:48:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T03:48:50","slug":"resilient-smszombie-infects-500000-android-users-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5739","title":{"rendered":"Resilient &#8216;SMSZombie&#8217; Infects 500,000 Android Users in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If an Android user downloads the app and sets it as the device\u2019s wallpaper, the app then prompts the user to install additional files. \u201c<strong>If the user agrees, the virus payload is delivered<\/strong> within a file called \u2018Android System Service,\u2019\u201d TrustGo explained.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/resilient-smszombie-infects-500000-android-users-china\">Resilient &#8216;SMSZombie&#8217; Infects 500,000 Android Users in China | SecurityWeek.Com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article states that this only affects users of China Mobile.\u00a0 I find it interesting that to get infected not only do you have to install the bad app, you also have to agree to install these additional files.\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t the second prompt raise some suspicion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If an Android user downloads the app and sets it as the device\u2019s wallpaper, the app then prompts the user to install additional files. \u201cIf the user agrees, the virus payload is delivered within a file called \u2018Android System Service,\u2019\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5739\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[277,347,227,309],"class_list":["post-5739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-china","tag-malware","tag-mobile","tag-sms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5743,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions\/5743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}