They attack the green robot more and more harshly

This is the first time the attack has been based on a virus targeting devices running the Android operating system. The attack is designed to manipulate documents with doc, xls, or pdf extensions that are found on devices running Windows and IOS. The thing started in late March 2013 with a fake email account linked to the name of a senior Tibetan activist, Kaspersky Lab revealed. 

A malicious virus that specializes in Android steals the phone's owner information during attacks. It then sends the address book and messaging history to a central server. Messages with the malicious virus targeted Mongolian, Chinese, Tibetan and Uyghur political activists using an APK file. An investigation by Kaspersky Lab experts revealed that the virus is presumably from Chinese cybercriminals.

“So far, I have not seen a targeted attack of this magnitude on mobile devices only, as was the case. Although, it is true, there were signs that the attackers would be happy to experiment in this new area. In this attack, a particularly advanced, full-featured Trojan was targeted at the victims ’personal information, which really can’t be called normal.

In the past, attackers used social engineering to trick their victims, now, this trend seems to be changing. In the future, the exploitation of such attacks will require complete combined technology. ” Said Constin Raiu, director of Kaspersky Lab's global research team. [Kaspersky Lab]