X Undercover virus 'bugs' 150,000 Chinese cell phone users
A new mobile phone virus has been discovered to have infected 150,000 people in China allowing hackers to remotely monitor calls, according to the Beijing Times on Wednesday.
The virus, named X Undercover, takes advantage of existing vulnerabilities in smart phones by forcing the three-way calling service to secretly open. Conversations and text messages can be monitored and copied after the virus breaks into the calling sequence, said Zou Shihong, a security expert with NetQin Mobile Inc.
The virus can also secretly video the phone's owner, retrieve call and text records as well as pinpoint the user's latest GPS position.
