If your smartphone slows down or when the battery is discharged in too short a time, it may be a sign your mobile device is being used by hackers.
“Kaspersky lab”, a famous Russian anti-virus and cyber security company, has warned of a malware that managed to slip under the guarantee on the App Market in Google Play, and until recently secretly mining cryptocurrency. The operation was a success, given the fact that the application did what it was promised in the description and the malware has been carefully disguised.
“The most popular apps, we found this type were associated with football: the family of applications with names including PlacarTV (placar means “hammer” in Portuguese), one of which was downloaded more than 100,000 times,” technology companies blog reads.
The application appeared to contain so-called Coinhive built-in miner, used for receiving coins of Manner while users were football. And fair enough, there may not be any reason to feel suspicious, the blog notes:
“It’s a cunning ploy, and not so easy to see your mind on the match, and watching videos heats the phone and drains the battery in any case, as a miner, so you will have no grounds for suspicion.”
“Kaspersky lab” has also informed its readers in a blog about another miner, who was found in the free VPN app called Vilny.net. This monitoring phone temperature and battery charge and suspended production as soon as the phone started to overheat, so as not to attract the attention of the user.
From the point of view of performance of mobile gadgets is hardly a competitor turbo-speed desktop computers with modern graphics cards, but “the number of devices makes up for their lack of power,” the company said.
“We warned Google about these apps, and soccer-related of them were removed from Google Play store Vilny.net still available in store though,” the company is rounded, adding that nobody can guarantee that there are no other hidden malicious codes into the Google play store in the near future.
“Kaspersky lab” is a Moscow-based multinational antivirus provider founded in 1997 by Eugene Kaspersky.
Sourse: sputniknews.com
