Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

CTOnews.com, September 15, according to the official account of "Ping an Panzhihua" and the cover News of West China Metropolis Daily, the network security department of public security organs in Panzhihua City, Sichuan Province successfully cracked a case of illegal control of computer information systems.

Reported that the public security organs found in the work of a number of local elderly mobile phones "automatic ordering" value-added services, the monthly deduction of 1-10 yuan of related fees, mobile phones are suspected of being remotely manipulated.

After police investigation, the suspect colluded with the elderly mobile phone solution provider and manufacturer to implant Trojan programs in the production process of the elderly machine, and without the mobile phone user's knowledge, the backstage ordered SP (CTOnews.com Note: service provider) value-added service, and shared the profit with SP. The network data of these phones are linked to the server of the same domain name, and after remote inspection, it is determined to be the Trojan server used by criminals to commit crimes.

Police said the criminal gang worked with a number of mobile phone motherboard manufacturers to implant Trojan programs into the mobile phone motherboard. Once the mobile phones equipped with these motherboards are sold, criminal gangs use Trojans to control mobile phones to return data, obtain users' mobile phone numbers, text messages, and other information, and send users a message confirming the opening of value-added ordering service. then control the mobile terminal to automatically reply "Y" to open, and automatically delete the text message after the completion of the operation.

Through data tracking, the police know that more than 1400 mobile phones across the country are controlled by the Trojan server, including more than 600,000 in Sichuan Province and more than 4000 in Panzhihua City.

In February 2023, the public security organs carried out a centralized collection of the case, and the police of the case went to Guangdong, Beijing, Hainan, Hunan and other places to arrest a total of 29 suspects, frozen more than 6000 million yuan in funds involved in the case, and four criminal gangs in the case made illegal profits of more than 100 million yuan.

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