Seriously: 700 million phone hacker sends its data to China!


Return for the month of November last year, it was discovered to be a back door ( backdoor) Are right in the firmware rate holds about 700 million phones were used to gather information, and now, the security firm to investigate the details of this case, I discovered that the data such as IMEI, IMSI, MAC address No. phones, and the service provider have been assembled and are all sent to a Chinese server.

This was a report last month revealed that the number of phones that are using firmware rate was developed by the Chinese company ADUPS Technology They were infected and their data are collected and sent to a server in China.

List phone manufacturers that have been identified her by name , including 43 security companyTrustlook, Where you can view them at the end of the article, as it has a prominent names in thefield such as Mediatek, BLU, ZTE, Lenovo.

More than that, the company says it discovered that the messages SMS He also scored the calls were collected from infected systems are the other was sent to China, all without you noticing anything.

The company adds that the start collected since July this year , the data and lasted six months until the discovery of matter and remedy the situation with some manufacturers of phones and that thecompany decided to abandon services ADUPS Technology.

 It is worth mentioning that a lot of companies are relying on a third party when it comes to services ( Firmware Over-The-Air) Instead of using Google services, which cause very serious security problems like this 

List phone manufacturers thatbeen identified her:
Aaron Electronics, Aeon Mobile, Trade shows All Win Tech, Amoi Technology, Archos, AUX, Bird, BLU. Cellon, Coship Mobile, DEWAV Communication Group, Helio, Prestigio, Ragentek, RDA

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