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(MENAFN – Al Wakeel News) Press Officer –
The smartphone is exposed to many viruses that
Used by hackers to steal or encrypt personal data
Get money for decryption and data recovery.
A team of ESET researchers said
"
On a new ransomware that uses the victim's contact lists to spread malicious links
By SMS, according to the technical site "techradar".
The targeted Android / Filecoder.C virus, Android phones, has begun
Spread since mid-July and the virus is based on a complex and powerful mode of operation
Technology (RSA1024),
It encrypts the data and phone files of the victim, making it unable to decrypt only
During the payment.
The researchers pointed out that the ransom virus is infiltrating into
The smartphone via the bad toy is also widespread on the social platform Reddit
Developers of famous forum developers XDA, once the user clicks on some links are downloaded virus
Directly on the phone.
The virus prevents the user from accessing
The phone number, then start sending text messages (SMS) to the phone number of the victim's phone list
On a malicious link to the ransomware installation file.
Filecoder virus differs from the rest
Known ransomware, does not prevent the user from accessing his phone by locking
The screen, in addition to what the fixed value is not defined on ransom, is rather esteemed
The value of the amount required for ransom based on the value of the data stolen from the victim.
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