The 4.2 Jelly Bean version of Android was introduced to users in 2012 with many innovations. However, the SMS application that was widely used at the time still crashed and sometimes showed your messages as if they had not been sent. If this is the only way to solve the problem, then it is newly emerging was to use SMS apps. Users solved this problem thanks to third-party SMS applications that they downloaded from the Google Play Store.

Since then, many users around the world prefer third party SMS applications they know and trust. However, sometimes users who want to try something new, can put their phone at great risk.

The application that texts without your knowledge and commits a crime: Symoo

Cyber ​​security service for mobile devices Evina Researcher Maxime Ingrao, who works at the company, revealed in a study that the SMS application Symoo is not at all what it seems. According to the data found by Ingrao, although Symoo looks like an SMS application from the outside, it actually uses your phone. Send SMS to unknown persons. Ingrao states that such applications are often used by hackers and other criminals.

The app, which was pulled from the Play Store today, became available on October 18, 2022. It has already passed 100,000 downloads. The developer of the application even updated Symoo several times after it was released.

So how does this app work?

From the outside, like a simple and convenient SMS application, when you download Symoo, the application asks you to use your phone number. Sign Up and it asks permission to both send and receive text messages and show you incoming notifications. Due to the functionality of the application, as soon as you allow it, the application will go to a loading screen stating that it is compiling your messages. However, at the moment, the application is on platforms such as Viber, Telegram, Instagram and Google without your knowledge. not yours activates two-step verification services from stolen or fake accounts with your number.

Then you use the application as if nothing happened, but the people using these fake accounts are involved in dozens of different illegal jobs through your number and in case of any problems, these accounts begin to be investigated. Authorities, investigating the account involved in the crime find your number for them, so that the pumpkin explodes on your head.

Maxime Ingrao reverse engineered the application and stated that the application is directly connected to one of the fake account selling platform originating from India and that this platform 50 cents He also explains that they offer two-step verification services to users on the platforms they want for small amounts such as.