Information Madness

Hacking has been prevalent not only in PCs but also in mobiles nowadays. According to the latest news, several millions of Android mobile users have been attacked by a malicious Data stealing application that would send the SMS’s, passwords of Voice Mail, Subscriber identification number, mobile’s SIM number and mainly browsing history details to the Website WWW.IMNET.US. The website is actually owned by a unknown person from China called as Shenzhen.

 

‘Lookout’ is a mobile security enterprise works on security issues of mobiles and sells handset protecting app for many main devices like Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and Android devices. Lookout is the one who found about the stealing app. This stealing app works in this way; it instructs to the user about downloading free items and has been downloaded by many of them for over 1.1 million to 4.6 million times. While they try to download the app would send the information to the www.imnet.us website.