Care, has discovered a new malware for Android! – Pplware

Malware is one of the major security problems on mobile devices, and the Android platform one of the most exploited, due to its growing number of users.

It has recently been discovered a new malware that masquerades Google Chrome updated to steal users’ personal data.

a new malware has been identified for Android that masquerades as Google Chrome browser update, lying housed in web pages designed to be identical to official pages Google or Android.

the malware was made public on April 28, the Zscaler security company, has been developed to record the call history and browser, monitor text messages and get the data credit cards, which are then sent to a remote server.

According to Zscaler, the recent threat it is able to identify if the user possess an antivirus installed, and if it finds active force its closure not to be detected. If the Play Store is opened, the malware also presents a false page payment by credit card for the user to enter their bank details, which are sent to a phone number in Russia.

The device is only affected if the user to activate the installation of unknown origin applications and is always dependent on application installation by the user.

To remove this threat, the only safe course is performing a factory restore order to eliminate any trace of the intruder.