The recent times have not been favorable for Android and for your security. Are already several bugs and newly discovered virus, exposing users and managed to intercept data and other information of these.
The latest discovery of problems in the Android universe has shown the Podec, a virus that can circumvent Captcha mechanisms of checks and so stealing money users of infected smartphones.
The discovery of Podec has shown that the inventiveness of cyber criminals is to grow and to achieve very high levels of sophistication. This virus is also known as Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.Podec and its propagation occurs by SMS.
The Podec is to already having a major impact in northern Europe, mainly in Russia, where most of the devices are infected. However there are already many cases elsewhere, notably in South America, which shows that this is invading new markets.
The intention of Podec is stealing money to infected users, managing to subscribe to value-added services and the like, where the user has to pay to attend.
The form is used to make such records of uses Captcha translation services, achieving Podec mimic human behavior and so ensure that these codes are provided to them.
When can hide user alerts for the costs of subscribed services and the need for authorization for its use, the Podec can be present and perform your attack.
The infection Podec occurs with the installation of applications from non-official stores or changed applications. Once it is installed asks the user permission management device, which means that it is almost impossible to later remove the device.
Podec code is developed and well shielded, being spread by various system areas and is protected by measures that obfuscate and conceal the inside of the system, thus ensuring greater difficulty for their detection and evaluation.
All this sophistication of Podec with protected code, the form how it is spread and especially how can bypass the captcha systems, show that this new virus should be being developed by Android developers-team and has extensive knowledge in the area of fraud and theft of money.
The Podec was discovered by Kaspersky and users to protect themselves should take care not to install applications that are obtained from outside the official premises that come from dubious sources
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