Today there are applications for almost everything but it is important to be aware whether an application is reliable because, if we install, this will become part of our system.
Recently appeared an application named Adult Player , facing the world of pornography, in addition to presenting adult content, also takes photos to the users. The photographs are then used to force users to pay a monetary amount.
A group of researchers from security firm Zscaler found that the Adult Player app contains malware and is threatening several users of the Android world. The app, which aims to show pornography, is actually a threat to all users who installed it.
According to the researchers show, this app takes pictures the users themselves without any permission from them and then the picture is used for an attack Ransomware (ie the equipment is locked and the picture is displayed and asked the user to pay a monetary amount, via Paypal, which is around $ 500)
If the user to proceed payment, the “pirates” promise to unlock the device and also delete the photo. There are, however, some users report that even after paying nothing happens.
It should be noted, however, that this app is not in the Google Play but can be directly installed from the site, with proper permissions on the device. If you find this application “out there” will not fall into temptation to install it … will you get expensive
Source:. Zscaler via IBTimes
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