Android: hacker attack smartphones 17 000

You can not repeat enough, be careful what you download portals of mobile applications. 000 victims of the 17 young hacker indicted Wednesday by them had paid the price charged for hiding viruses in applications that are downloaded by mobile users. € 500,000 is the damage that young hacker arrested earlier this week and charged Wednesday, accused of being increased to 17 000 people in total. This offer only Picard is accused of taking portals alternative Google Play copies of existing applications which he carefully added strain Faremarkt. The malware then instructed to send SMS messages to premium rate numbers, which are then sent to the Criminal emails containing codes for online gambling (lottery type). Minimum profit at any time, but not multiply 17,000 victims who, in turn, have seen their bills swell enormously, up to 10 or 150 €. The hacker was arrested by the Central Office for Combating crime related to information technology and communications charges late Tuesday afternoon, after being alerted by the phone operators hacked. The young man, twenty years ago, admitted the facts alleged against him, arguing that "greed was not [his] primary motivation", as reported by 20 minutes. Retain the essential point of this incident: Android application, when the user tries to download an application from the portal alternative if you want to allow upload of "unknown sources". A warning that should not be taken lightly, Google has no control over this type of applications.