How to know if your Android phone is the ‘malware’ HummingBad? – CNET in Spanish

HummingBad infected 10 million Android devices worldwide.

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Bad news: a malicious application has seized about 10 million Android phones worldwide, and this is something creepy. Under the name HummingBad, researchers from Check Point say the software can get to the root of your phone, collect your data and make it look like you’ve clicked on ads without even you find out.

If you’re worried about what might happen to your phone, you can take the lead, since there is a possibility that you do check your device and know if HummingBad has taken hold of him and is selling your information to the highest bidder.

Even, you can check this malware your phone making some changes to prevent this situation in the future.

How do you find out if your phone has HummingBad?

We live in an era of malicious mobile applications, and cyber security companies have taken note. For this they have developed applications that can detect malignant agents on the phone and label them by you. It works a bit like a virus on your computer. What’s more, some of these services can tell if an application is doing something that is not all good.

You have a choice when it comes to software protection for mobile devices. One of them is the own Check Point called Zone Alarm, but also apps exist as Lookout, AVG and Avast.

The tools to identify and capture HummingBad public domain, so any app it boasts will be able to run on your phone and help him out of there.

How to kill HummingBad?

If you are the owner of one of those infected with this malware – how lucky !, have one of the 10 million phones in the world with HummingBad – then for you is bad news indeed. You can get rid of this malware, but you will not like the way you can do that. through the reestablishment of the factory settings of the device

Yes, I could retire the device carefully, explained Dan Wiley, director of incident response Check Point, but that you can only do if you’re a black belt in cybersecurity malicious specializing in mobile applications. Although of course, if you had the skills, you would not be reading this.

So the best you can do is back up your files and contacts and point your favorite applications.

How to prevent this from happening again?

If you are now looking at the generic background screen of your device thanks to the restoration of the previous step, probably the last thing you want are tips. But Wiley has some that will help you pay attention to these bad dreams do not become a recurring nightmare.

“The best thing I could say is that do not download applications stores untrusted” . Most people in the US You get your apps from the Google Play Store, but in other countries, it is more common to install random other sources. Since then subtracts guarantees do this you do have with Google and its selection process

This is not enough that does not happen again. – Hackers with very smart – but it’s a good start.