While Google has always been conscious about the safety and protection of its users and their data, this malware spread came out as a shock to many. This is extremely harmful because through such malwares users can lose access to some of their most important data’s and can face severe loss. In the past two years with the Covid and the increase in technology many severe cases of malware spread and data loss was reported. This isn’t the first time such an instances have occurred somewhere. The malware accesses the user’s data and sends it to the hackers, automatically subscribers users to premium services ultimately stealing money from them and lastly generates revenues from malicious ads by stimulating clicks on them. However, the question is what does the malware do? Well, according to reports it managed to do three particular tasks. However, Google was soon notified by the researchers and the tech giant has now removed the application from its app store. This means the application was downloaded by 500K users before it became clear the harms that it causes.
The malware was detected by Cybersecurity researchers at Pradeo when 500,000 users who fell victim to it were reported.
0 kommentar(er)
