Check Point announced on Monday the discovery of a new threat to mobile developed to affect Android smartphones.
In a statement, the company’s cybersecurity israelite says that it is a fake zero-day found in the application EnergyRescue that “directly attacks the wallet of the users”.
once installed on the device, the threat – which called Charger – steals your contacts, messages, and prompts you for administrator permissions to manipulate the systems. If the user of the grant, the ransomware locks the device and displays a message to lock to require a payment, under the penalty of selling the stolen information on the black market.
“You have to pay us, otherwise we will sell your personal information on the black market every 30 minutes. We guarantee 100% that all your files will be restored after we receive the payment, desbloquearemos the mobile device and delete all your data from our server! Turn off your phone won’t serve of anything, all your data is stored on our servers! We can still sell them to spam, spoof your identity, commit crimes, banking, etc. We collect and we download all of your personal data. We have all the information about your social networks, bank accounts and credit cards. Collect all the data about your friends and family.”
in This case, the redemption request arrives at the 0.2 Bitcoins (about 187 euros), a new maximum logged in the segment. Check Point refers to but which, until now, were not detected any payments made.
To protect their devices, the technology israelite advises the use of preventive software of mobile threats at a time that the mobile malware has registered a sharp growth.
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