Employee to ensure that requests come from a person, not an automated software, the Captcha system was violated criminal purposes.
The PODEC Trojan, whose existence the company Kaspersky, is passed by a person to fool Captcha after infecting Android devices through links pirated popular games like Minecraft Pocket Edition versions.
“The tools of social engineering used in its distribution, the protector of commercial quality to hide the malware and the complicated process of extortion to stand the test of Captcha do suspect that this trojan was designed by a team of Android developers specializing in fraud and illegal monetization “, according to analysts at Kaspersky.
PODEC automatically forwards requests Captcha an online human translation service in real time which converts the image into text.
is also able to ignore the advice on the charging system that notifies users the price of a service and requires approval before payment, so that the user subscribes to it without realizing it.
After infection, PODEC requested administrator privileges and, once granted, removing or stopping the execution of malicious code is impossible.
PODEC acts especially since the popular Russian social network VKontakte, and, so far, most victims were detected in this country and other neighbors. Kaspersky warned however that the development of the Trojan is still ongoing and is adding new capacity.
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