Software now detected, he sent secretly the data of mobile phones of users every 72 hours
The security company Kryptowire discovered a software that is installed on some Android phones that share users ‘ data without them even realising. This software secret brought the mobile phones to send text messages, call history and contact lists to a server in China every 72 hours.
“The Kryptowire has identified a number of models of Android devices that contained a firmware that included sensitive personal data about its users and transmitted that data to third-party servers without disclosure or consent of users.”, he said the security company in a press release issued Tuesday.
The software was designed by the chinese company Shanghai Adups Technology Company and is present in over 700 million devices. The company told The New Tork Times that the software was not designed to be installed on mobile phones that are americans.
According to the ^ duke, alan the software was designed for a chinese customer and never had the intention to affect the mobile phones of other countries.
however, the manufacturer of mobile phones in the United States BLU Products ensures that the 120,000 of their phones were affected.
in A statement the BLU Products says that it “has identified and quickly removed a security issue caused by a third party application that was to collect personal data not authorized in the form of text messages, call history and contacts of customers that use the phones BLU.”
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