Taiwan Mobile’s own brand AMAZING A32 cell phone was implanted with malicious software, causing information security concerns. The National Communications Commission (NCC) said that as of December 20 last year, about 7,600 Taiwanese users were using the phone, and asked the industry to clarify and remedy the situation as soon as possible; Taiwan Big said that it will be fully recalled for security software upgrades; the Criminal Bureau said that the fraudulent group is suspected of colluding with factories in mainland China and planting malicious programs in the phone, and the case will be traced through cross-strait cooperation mechanisms.
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Taiwan’s major brands of cell phones were implanted with malicious programs NCC: remedy as soon as possible
The Central News Agency and Apple Daily reported that the NCC said yesterday that the NCC issued a press release today that it had received information from the Criminal Police Bureau and found that Taiwan’s large AMAZING A32 cell phone process was implanted with malicious programs, resulting in the purchase of the phone people in use, the fraudulent group can use the phone number to apply for a game account to the game company, when the game company to transmit the game authentication code When the game company transmits the game authentication code to the mobile phone number, the SMS will be sent back to the fraudulent group at the same time, and the game account (i.e. the head game account) will be automatically deleted after the application is completed; when the fraudulent group obtains game points, the points will be stored in the head game account using overseas IPs, resulting in the unsuspecting cell phone users becoming the heads of the fraudulent group.
NCC said that the current testing of this cell phone and other telecom operators’ own brand cell phones, in addition to this one phone, has not found other private brand cell phones have a similar situation. According to statistics, the cell phone, including in use, unsold, eliminated or not yet users, a total of more than 90,000; as of December 20, 2020, Taiwan Mobile still using the cell phone users about 7,600; other cell phones in use may be the number can be carried to other mobile communication operators users hold, the NCC has also asked Taiwan Mobile to immediately inventory, and notify all holders for Aftercare.
The NCC has also requested Taiwan Mobile to set up a special area on its website and provide a toll-free customer service line (0809-000-852, Taiwan Mobile users can dial 188 directly from their cell phones) to provide relevant services at its stores nationwide in response to consumer This is to respond to consumers’ inquiries about software updates or related compensation programs.
The NCC said it will take two measures to ensure consumer rights for mainland white label cell phones.
First, the NCC will require the mobile communications industry’s own brand cell phones in the application for cell phone hardware type certification period, should be presented to comply with the Taiwan Information and Communications Industry Standards Association (TAICS) issued by the “smart phone system built-in software information security standards” to support the evidence, but also for the phone once the built-in software information security incident cut off remedial measures, and should indeed reveal information to the trial users understand.
Secondly, the NCC will be the Chinese mainland brand cell phones, the action industry’s own brand of land-based cell phones are included in the annual sampling test subject, as for the sampling test results do not meet the industrial information security standards, will require cell phone manufacturers or operators to improve as soon as possible.
Taiwan Ta said in a press release that it had received notification from its partner company “Li Ping International Corporation” that the Amazing A32 cell phone manufactured by it had to be recalled for a full security software upgrade because of enhanced information security protection; Taiwan Ta also promised to cooperate fully with “Li Ping International Corporation “Ltd. to fully cooperate and fully assist users to upgrade the operating system of the phone to the latest V2.0 version.
Taiwan Mobile also revealed earlier that there are indeed about 200 users of the phone into the customer service line to reflect theft. Taiwan Mobile took the initiative to test the A32 cell phone software and provided it to the Telecom Technology Center for testing. After discovering the information security concerns, it immediately took the initiative to block seven malicious IPs from overseas and requested Liping International to develop a new version of the 2.0 operating system, but since the case is under investigation by the prosecution and the Criminal Police Bureau, it cannot be disclosed to the public based on the principle of non-disclosure of investigation, but it has been used to call the customers with the phone one after another. Customer service calls to Taiwan Mobile users holding the phone, advance assistance in software upgrades, or replacement of other programs, the door number at least as many as 1337 doors.
Taiwan Mobile said that the number of customers notified in advance is higher than the 1337 door numbers, including corporate users, but it does not mean that all the notified objects have information security concerns.
The Apple Daily tried to check the evaluation of AMAZING A32 cell phone on the internet forum and found that some of the cell phone forums have continued to have users report running to the police station due to fraud cases since 2020. “The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public.
Another user said that almost maintain a week a notice of arrival, and said, “If you want an excuse to travel, buy one, SIM card plugged, package you have an endless number of notices. After checking, the phone is still available on online shopping and auction platforms.
Taiwan Mobile phone has information security vulnerability police: cross-strait cooperation mechanism to track
Criminal Bureau held a press conference on the afternoon of the 6th to explain the case of Taiwan’s large information security loopholes, Deputy Chief of the Center for Combating Fraud Crime Zhang Wenyuan said that in July 2020 that received two cases of people’s complaints, they were both notified of the game points fraud cases, but because the age of the two were in their 50s and 70s, the police found after tracing a strange situation, they launched an analysis.
The two victims’ cell phones were sent to the Criminal Affairs Bureau for digital surveillance in September 2020, and it was found that both phones had been implanted with malicious programs, and the NCC was subsequently notified in accordance with the relevant regulations.
The two victims were found to have been implanted with malicious programs, which will lead the cell phones to transmit information to fraudulent groups in mainland China, causing the cell phone users to become fraudulent head households.
The Criminal Affairs Bureau has determined that the fraudulent group is suspected of colluding with factories in mainland China to implant a malicious program in the cell phone process, so that the fraudulent group can take remote theft of cell phone information, and then use the phone to apply for a game account, and then to “fake dating” to defraud the victim, and lead to the police only to check the head cell phone users and foreign IP, and has been traced through the cross-strait cooperation mechanism to trace the source of the malicious program.
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