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Kaspersky Lab's experts discovered five fake CNH and IPVA 2019 digital apps available for download on the Play Store. Published by an alleged developer called "Ministry of Technology" (recall that the full name is Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications), the applications contained only invasive ads to the 39, scale of the system.
Malicious apps were downloaded more than 17,000 times on Android devices and bore the names "CNH Digital", "IPVA Consult" and "IPVA São Paulo".
There were few functions available: direction buttons for the Detran website, showing how to get the CNH. digital or pay the IPVA.
According to Fabio Assolini, Senior Security Analyst at Kaspersky Lab, such applications contain invasively displayed advertisements that do not possess
An adware consumes Internet bandwidth, battery, in addition to owner of the fraudulent version the right to run scripts on the device of the user, which may even result in the extraction of cryptographic parts.
Fabio Assolini, Senior Security Analyst at Kaspersky Lab
Play Store apps have already been banned, along with those that violate user security. To publish the IPVA payment guide in São Paulo, it is necessary to access the website of the Ministry of Treasury, while the official digital application CNH, available for Android and iOS, developed by SERPRO, appears on the map below:
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