EconomíaHoy.mx – 13:19 – 07/09/2015
Adult Player is, to the annoyance of users, more than an application of pornography. The ‘app’ featuring adult content, but instead the photographing, bloqueba your phone and demanded their money back.
What at first seemed a simple application of pornography has proved software Malignant requiring the user a bribe to save their data and reputation, as reported by security firm Zscaler.
According to the company has said in a statement, the application activated the front camera phone to take pictures of who utilizase the ‘app’ before the terminal block. These ‘apps’, known as ‘ransomwares’ require users money by threatening to publish private information or delete the contents of your mobile. As he said a security expert at the BBC , these malicious software designed an increasingly lucrative and growing business.
In August this year, security firm Intel Security indicated that these programs had increased by 127% since 2014, and mainly affect the desktop and laptops. “One of the reasons for the increase is that they are very easy to create,” he says BBC Raj Samani, stop Security Intel technology in Europe. “This kind of apps are based on the embarrassment factor. If you do not pay, your reputation is at stake,” he stresses.
The ‘ransomwares’ are most commonly found on computers in mobile phones, but this It could be the beginning of a trend. Therefore, we must be more cautious when downloading apps: just rely on the appropriate stores such as Google Play or Apple Store, and never download an ‘app’ for a link that we have received an email.
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