The Ministry of Public Security warns that spyware is particularly dangerous on phones

Tram Ho

According to the Ministry of Public Security, from October 2020 onwards, through the work of cyber security protection and high-tech crime prevention, the police force detected a spyware. used for fraud, theft, appropriation of property of Android phone users.

Accordingly, this spyware was disguised by objects, impersonating a mobile application (App) named “Ministry of Public Security”. This is the trick using spyware to cheat, steal property, appropriating property is especially dangerous. If the user installs this application on the phone, he / she will take control of the whole phone.

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The tricks that the subjects use are: Objects using VOIP technology create virtual phone numbers, fake public phone numbers of law enforcement agencies (only different from the prefix like +0096, +884), to call the victim, to notify that they are being investigated because they are related to a case or a specific case, otherwise they will be arrested and prosecuted. At the same time ask the victim to declare assets, the amount of cash available, and the amount of money deposited in the bank accounts. They falsified arrest warrants, prosecutions, summons from the police to intimidate, and then asked victims to change their phones to use Android phones.

Next, using the excuse “to secure account information, protect victims by fraudsters”, the subjects asked victims to download and install applications to impersonate the software provided by the Ministry of Public Security. The level with the picture displayed is the police station and bears the name “Ministry of Public Security”.

After the victim installs the App named “Ministry of Public Security” above, according to the subjects’ instructions, the victim will have to fill in additional fields of information displayed on this fake App such as: username, password , bank account, full name, identity card number (citizen identification) … These information will be transferred to the server managed by the subjects. The messages and calls to the victim’s phone will be controlled by the spyware and transferred to the server under the management of the object, not displayed on the victim’s phone.

“More dangerously, objects can also control the user’s mobile phone remotely such as: composing, sending SMS messages; unlocking mobile devices; turning on and off the internet, accessing wifi; reading and writing. contacts, reading and recording call history, making calls without the knowledge of the phone owner “- The Ministry of Public Security said.

Typically there was an incident where subjects silently monitored the content of messages, recovered account passwords by themselves, registered Internet Banking and Smart Banking services, changed transaction limits of their accounts. , then access the account, transfer the victim’s money abroad. The messages containing OTP codes, confirmation phone calls of bank staff are transferred directly to the target by spyware. This is the cause of the cardholder’s withdrawal of money without the victim’s recognition.

Through investigation, the police force discovered dozens of victims in provinces and cities such as Da Nang, Hue, Tuyen Quang, Nghe An, An Giang, Dak Lak … were stolen and occupied by objects. won hundreds of billions of dong in the bank account.

The Ministry of Public Security recommends to people about the above dangerous tricks of the subjects; This is the act of impersonating “Ministry of Public Security” to aim at fraud, theft, appropriation of property of Android phone software users. The Ministry of Public Security affirmed that at present, the Ministry has not yet developed and deployed the App system on smartphone applications. The official website of the Ministry of Public Security is the website of the Ministry of Public Security that only uses 2 official domain names: mps.gov.vn and bocongan.gov.vn; all other domain names on behalf of the Ministry of Public Security are fake.

The Ministry of Public Security recommends that people raise their guard against new fraudulent tricks of cybercrime; absolutely not accessing unorthodox news sites; do not install software, applications from unofficial sources; Do not provide your personal information, bank accounts, email accounts, social networks to anyone through the phone, social networks and other online channels without verifying the correct person information. take.

Android phone users who have installed the fake App “Ministry of Public Security” above, need to quickly check, immediately notify the bank through the 24/7 support switchboard and report to the local police. nearest for assistance and handling.

In the coming time, the Department of Cyber ​​Security and the Prevention and Control of High-Tech Crime and the Public Security of units and localities will expand the investigation of fraudulent acts of information systems of agencies and organizations to spreading malicious code, deceiving and appropriating property, in order to strictly handle subjects according to the provisions of law.

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Source : Genk