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Saturday, June 21, 2014

Cell phone spy program discovered with from the factory – manager-magazin.de

By Mirjam Hecking

  Schick but apparently dangerous: The China Mobile Phone Star N9500 ​​

Schick but apparently Dangerous: The China Mobile Phone Star N9500 ​​

yourself when downloading an app with your smartphone to capture a virus, probably belongs to the terror of every mobile user. But the spies have long continued, now already deliver smartphones with integrated spy software

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Hamburg / Bochum – A phone that online banking data thumbing through which eavesdrop on a conversation can read along, SMS and e-mails and on the camera and microphone to record Everything can secretly? The thought leaves a shudder, for many smartphone users, such a situation but already sad reality.

According to G Data, a provider of IT security solutions are in Europe phones on the market, spying their users . Thus, according to the company the Galaxy S4 clone “N9500″ the Chinese manufacturer Star is shipped from the factory with an extensive spy Nage program. It can not be deinstalieren and is disguised as a Google Play Store service. Your own customer made G Data on the spy phone attentive.

“without the user realizing the smartphone sends personal data to a server located in China and is able to secretly concealed more applications to install,” describe the experts the procedure. “This personal data can be retrieved, overheard conversations, read online banking data, emails and SMS or remote control camera and microphone,” it said. Who receives the data, ultimately, can not understand, according to the company.

The affected Star N9500 ​​is one with a price of around 130 to 160 euros, according to experts at the most popular cheap China phones and is also marketed in Europe – for example through Amazon. First was from a reaction to the allegations of the manufacturer unknown.

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