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The new "malware" threatens half a billion devices running Android

13:19, 10-03-2016

The company's specialists Skycure from San Francisco found malicious software for Android devices. The so-called klikdzheker threatened all over the world half a billion gadgets on this platform.

Klikdzheker for someone may sound like the name of the new-fangled style of dance underground, but it is not so. Click-Jacking occurs when a fraudster using transparent layer places an invisible button or other user interface element on top of another, looking completely innocent, such as a button on a web page that the user sees.

To implement this method of attack, hackers create special Web sites that do not inspire suspicions, however, contain malicious code. The method allows the fraudsters to steal confidential information, as well as perform on the infected smartphone actions that the user may not even suspect. Under the threat of bank details, social networking messages, SMS-correspondence, accounts data, emails.

In addition, Android-klikdzhekery can change the permissions and device management to create a new administrator account. As a result, fraudsters may be able to remotely control a gadget, change passwords, delete all data. At stake at the moment there are 65% of devices running Android, starting with version 2.2 to 4.4.

As an example of malware Skycure posted video game "Rick and Morty." Clicks during the game to activate an invisible layer of the operating system. The completion of the game is that the victim has given attackers access rights to a variety of functions on the device.

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