App denounce “porn” that blocks cell Android – La Prensa Grafica

Once downloaded from untrusted sites, the user has to pay $ 500 to retrieve your phone.

9 September 2015 to the (s) 10:55 / Margarita I. Funes

Beware of Android users who like to watch porn on their mobile phones. This week it unveiled a new kind of app, because it’s really nothing more than a software, that once installed on the device, crashes and requires the user to pay $ 500 through PayPal so that it can unlock.

The American firm specializing in cybersecurity Zscaler reported this malicious software (ransomware, in English), which is disguised app with porn content. The user is in unreliable-not in the PlayStore- sites and once you install it and open it, the software starts taking pictures of user and threatens to make them public.

Both to avoid this as to restore phone operation, the user must pay $ 500 through PayPal and during 24 hours after deposit received, will be unlocked. Cyber ​​security firm Zscaler warns that cases in which even the payment of that amount returned users the capabilities of your phone are known.

The recommendation of the director of the company, Deepen Desai, for who have downloaded the app on their mobile phone is to reboot in safe mode (or “safe mode”) so that the permissions are restored as the applications that brought the factory system.

The case of Adult Player is the second of ransomware is known. The first was called Porn Droid and worked in the same way on the phones.