Sunday, July 26, 2015

Virus from Google Play installed adware on 1.5 million smartphones running Android – “What’s going on?”

virus from Google Play installed adware on 1.5 million smartphones running Android

The specialists of “Doctor Web” made a statement that in the popular online store Google Play appeared dangerous virus – Trojan, the victims of which are already more than 1.5 million devices running on the operating system Android.

The spread of the virus, presumably, going under the name KKBrowser. Directly from the official Google Play store virus was downloaded at least 100,000 times, and the countless number of times the virus was samoustanovlen to the Chinese collections of applications. Presumably, these devices around one and a half million.

On the virus infected gadget takes the role of a Trojan downloader. With it, attackers can install and remove a variety of applications on the smartphone, completely unbeknownst to the owner device. In addition, Trojan easily forge e-mail notifications and sends advertisements.

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