A few years ago, disposable phone numbers were created in order to activate SMS services or authenticate one's identity without having to give out one's real phone number.
But, as reported by Trend Micro, relayed by Futura Sciences, hackers have succeeded in infecting these activation services by SMS.
According to the world leader in data security and cybersecurity solutions, these hackers would have created a botnet allowing them to recover these disposable numbers, in order to then use them on various authentication services.
Trend Micro cites, for example, the creation of fake accounts on social networks.
Already 5,500 infections in France
For now, tens of thousands of numbers have already been hacked.
Mainly in Indonesia, Russia and Thailand.
In Europe, France would be the most affected.
There are reportedly 5,500 infections recorded there.
And among the most targeted devices, we find Android phones from TE, Meizu, Huawei, Oppo and HTC.
But there is even more worrying.
Micro Trend would suspect that hackers had access to the production lines of these phones and installed malware before purchase.
The Guerrilla malware, allowing remote analysis and recovery of text messages received on a telephone, would have been identified in particular.
"The malware remains stealthy, only collecting text messages relevant to the requested application so that it can covertly continue this activity for long periods of time," explained a Micro Trend expert.
Hackers would therefore have access to thousands of phone numbers in several countries allowing them to register new accounts for fraudulent purposes.
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