Hummer - a family of Trojans
According to Cheetah Mobile experts, a new family of trojans for mobile devices has appeared. The common name of this family is Hummer .
Such malware gains superuser rights, then downloads adult applications and displays pop-up advertising banners.
According to the research, the daily income of operators can reach $ 500 thousand, because each application installed by malware brings $ 0.5. At the beginning of this year, the maximum number of infected devices reached 1.4 million, you see, an impressive figure.
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The malware of the Hummer family, after being installed on the “lucky” device, gets superuser rights, applications are downloaded in the background, and ads are periodically displayed.
Investigating the source code of a new family of Trojans, it was concluded that the fathers of this malware are Chinese developers. Since 2016, 12 domains have been used with the Hummer to update the Trojan. Some of these domains are associated with Chinese e-mail.
Hummer was noticed in August 2014, because initially it did not show vigorous activity, and therefore, it did not bother the experts. To date, the situation has changed dramatically. Since the summer of 2015, malware activity began to increase, the peak was reached at the beginning of 2016, when the number of infections reached 1.4 million users per day.
Completely removing the hummer is very difficult. The trojan of this family receives the highest level of access, and ordinary antiviruses are not able to completely clear the infected device from it. Even resetting the settings to the factory settings will not relieve the mobile device from the trojan. Hummer develops such activity that in a few hours it can download more than 200 APKs, generating more than 2 GB of traffic.
List of 25 countries with the most Hummer infected devices.
Such malware gains superuser rights, then downloads adult applications and displays pop-up advertising banners.
According to the research, the daily income of operators can reach $ 500 thousand, because each application installed by malware brings $ 0.5. At the beginning of this year, the maximum number of infected devices reached 1.4 million, you see, an impressive figure.
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The malware of the Hummer family, after being installed on the “lucky” device, gets superuser rights, applications are downloaded in the background, and ads are periodically displayed.
Investigating the source code of a new family of Trojans, it was concluded that the fathers of this malware are Chinese developers. Since 2016, 12 domains have been used with the Hummer to update the Trojan. Some of these domains are associated with Chinese e-mail.
Hummer was noticed in August 2014, because initially it did not show vigorous activity, and therefore, it did not bother the experts. To date, the situation has changed dramatically. Since the summer of 2015, malware activity began to increase, the peak was reached at the beginning of 2016, when the number of infections reached 1.4 million users per day.
Completely removing the hummer is very difficult. The trojan of this family receives the highest level of access, and ordinary antiviruses are not able to completely clear the infected device from it. Even resetting the settings to the factory settings will not relieve the mobile device from the trojan. Hummer develops such activity that in a few hours it can download more than 200 APKs, generating more than 2 GB of traffic.
List of 25 countries with the most Hummer infected devices.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/369439/
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