Discovered a series of Nokia 7 Plus in Europe sending user data to a server in China

Today, taking advantage of applications, games to steal user data and automatically send to overseas servers often happens, but just when new smartphones, just used after opening the box themselves sending user information to a server in China is completely different.

The recent finding shows that a number of them have not been able to identify the brand-new Nokia 7 Plus sold in Norway that sent user data to China. The information of the user is stolen enough for them to be controlled in real time, including location information (location data), phone number used, and device serial number.

The personal data of users collected on Nokia 7 Plus will be automatically sent to a server with domain as vnet.cn owned by state-owned telecommunications company China Telecom and the contact address at ' China Internet Network Information Center - China Internet Information Center '.

Many people believe that the Nokia 7 Plus personal data collected by this user is a device dedicated to the Chinese market but for some reason has "strayed" to retail shelves in the country. out.

In addition, Dirk Wetter, a security expert, discovered that an APK package named 'com.qualcomm.qti.autoregistration.apk "performs the task of tracking and sending user data on Nokia 7 models. Plus this.

HMD Global has acknowledged this incident and affirmed that it has released a security update released in late February to fix this problem. In addition, HMD Global also added that only one batch of products encountered the above error.

Regarding the true owner of the "mysterious" server in China in this incident, HMD Global did not make any comments but the company admitted that it was one of the requirements for its Nokia smartphones. sold in China.