London, UK
It’s called Adult Player is an application that looks like pornography but it ends up being a nightmare for users, especially those in Android devices.
malware discovered by researchers at security firm Zscaler take secret photos of its users using the front camera on your own phone and worst of all: locks the device and deploys a demand for payment of $ 500.
Adult Player is part of the so-called ransomwares (malicious software begging for money with a threat to publish private information or delete the contents of your device ) are gaining ground within the cyber crime.
In August, Intel Security indicated that these programs had increased 127% since 2014, affecting desktop and laptops, and phones could become trend.
“They are very easy to create and performance is huge. One of the groups we track earned more than $ 75,000 in 10 weeks,” he says Raj Samani, stop Security Intel technology in Europe.
Adult Player is not available in stores approved as Google Play, but can be installed directly from a website.
Experts say that one way to avoid the blurring of content and extortion is to keep a copy of the data. Another is only download apps from Google Play as appropriate and not do it through links received by email stores.
Another is to always use safe mode cell , allowing the user to delete the malicious software.
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