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See that image of the sunset? It’s pretty, right? How could something so ordinary be a threat? But before you start emailing it to everyone in your contacts list, you might want to take notice of a malware that could be hiding within photos of sunsets, cats, and anything seemingly innocent, which could hack into your bank account.

A tool kit created by one of the architects of data theft infected more than 1.4 million computers worldwide.

Lion Gu, a senior threat researcher with Trend Micro, has published a research paper on the Chinese mobile cybercriminal underground market. The report analyzes SMS spam services and other similar products being put up for sale on the underground market in China.

Every country’s cybercriminal underground market has distinct characteristics, and with 500 million national mobile Internet users and the number continuously rising, the Chinese underground market is awash with cyber crooks buying and selling services and devices aimed at taking advantage of them.

Discussions focused on enterprise customer requirements rather than silver bullet solutions.