The Lookout mobile security company released a report on its website detailing a new threat for Android users through malicious code detected in more than 20,000 applications, including several known as Candy Crush, Facebook, snapchat, Twitter and WhatsApp.
Although serious, the situation is a key point and to consider, which is that “infected” applications detected correspond to fake versions of these programs, distributed in shops of third parties, outside Google Play, the official repository of Android apps.
As the company wrote, the scan job takes a year, and concludes that these applications include “adware” or code that shows ads . The novelty of the threat is malicious code that works silently in the background, gaining access “root”, in simple terms, it allows you to get files created at the system level, along all data created by programs the device.
While the technique is not new, Lookout notes that many of these applications “pirates” are fully functional copies of the original (unlike what normally happens with my copying the name and icon of the original and put other content).
The fact that get a “superuser” access makes, according to Lookout, malware is “virtually impossible to erase,” even with a factory reset . The solution is to contact the manufacturer to reinstall the operating system or simply buy a new device.
The countries with higher rates of detection of malware are the US, Germany, Iran, Russia, India, Jamaica, Sudan Brazil, Mexico and Indonesia.
The recommendation is to not download applications from unknown sources, limited mainly to the Play Store or other recognized as Amazon.
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