Adult Player, The Android App, Takes Photos of Users and Extorts Money
Adult Player, a pornographic Android app, is another example of ransomware that has been attacking Android users. This app secretly snaps pictures of people before locking their phones and demanding £330 in ransom before the phone was able to be used again. The activity was first noticed by the security firm Zscaler, a normal video playing app for videos of adult nature. The victims of the attack report that the app would use the phone’s front-facing camera to take their picture using and then lock the gadget completely. Similar claims came from Zscaler as it says the app Adult Player....
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