Choosing a good and inexpensive smartphone and buying it, everyone is counting on to get a secure device that can be trusted by the most valuable - management of banking applications and personal information. As it turned out, in vain.

Trend Micro Cyber ​​Security Experts published a curious report according to which the Russian Federation turned out to be one of the leaders among the smartphones on the viruses installed from the factory! According to experts, the identified malware is used for illegal registration in the services of the short-term car rental service, which allows fraudsters in case of damage to the property of a leased car or the emergence of an accident to shift responsibility to the smartphone owner.

Trend Micro reports to identify more than 16,000 infected gadgets "out of the box." According to the number of infected devices of the Russian Federation only Indonesia is inferior. Currently, malicious software has been detected on Chinese smartphones running the Android operating system. In the risk group, the owners of ZTE (Blade 3), Mione (P1, R5, R3, HERO 5), Meizu (V8), Huawei (Mate 20 Pro, P9, P20 Pro), and Honor. It is curious that a previously similar shaver was discovered in push-button phones.

To identify the presence of such viruses is not easy. Owners should pay attention to the details of SMS messages sent from the smartphone, overrunning Internet traffic or device batteries by unknown applications.

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