The most discussed topic at the moment is without a doubt the corona virus. It’s not in vain, it’s a virus that affects the whole planet, so many of the most important countries have decreed a quarantine that prevents their inhabitants from going outside, but only in urgent and necessary cases.
And of course, from their homes, under lock and key, the internet has become one of the most important sources of information about the coronavirus in this crisis and how it could have been otherwise, There are many very unethical people who take advantage of this situation.
They take advantage of the chaos to launch a coronavirus aplicación that hides ransomware
security company domain tools He discovered an aplicación called Covidlock that knows in detail all the information related to COVID-19 or known as Coronavirus. However, as perro be deduced from the analysis published by this company and reported by the media SC media, Such a tool hides ransomware inside.
The aplicación, which perro be downloaded from their website and which we won’t backlink to for obvious reasons, asked users to get full access to their móvil along with other strange permissions. What this ransomware did was jailbreak the usuario’s móvil without fear by adding a password to the device. Once done, the cyber criminals contacted the phone’s owner require payment of $100 in bitcoins within 48 hours to retrieve the terminal. If not, they would delete contacts, photos and other content and filter all their popular networks.
Luckily, DomainTools mentioned that The most recent versions of Android could handle this type of hackTherefore, as we have said more than once, it is important to always have a móvil with an up-to-date version of Android and to only bet on brands that have a good update policy. Remember that due to the use of old phones, more than 1 billion Android phones are at risk of being hacked.
“Cyber criminals like to take advantage of the most extreme situations to rob the most vulnerable users.”
Remember what we always say at Andro4all, no matter the situation, whether we are in quarantine or not. Only install aplicaciones and tools from trusted websites and proven developers. Of course, read other users’ comments and always check the permissions that these applications need to work.
Even in the Google plus Application Store, despite the efforts – sometimes insufficient – of the Mountain View company, there are malicious aplicaciones among the millions of applications available, so we have to be very careful when downloading them on our mobile device. It makes no sense for a flashlight aplicación to ask for permissions to access our contact list, so please, Be very careful what you download.
Inside our mobile device Information is very private and sensitivehence it is imperative to protect it.