LEAKERLOCKER: THE NEW VIRUS THAT THREATENS OUR PRIVACY ON THE NETWORK

It can be downloaded accidentally from Google Apps to our mobile and threatens to send photos and private messages, as well as internet histories to friends and family.

This new virus plays with your fears, that your closest people can know what you keep on your mobile, what you are looking for on the Internet, and do not know how to control it. The cybernetic community is already alerting of the first cases and therefore, asks for caution before the possibility of being attacked by this virus.

According to those who have suffered, the virus called LeakerLocker blocks the main screen of your phone and says it has made a backup of any “confidential information” that you have stored in it. That is when it threatens to filter all that documentation to everyone you know (via the contacts of your mobile phone), unless you pay a sum of money, about 43 euros, to the criminals behind it.

In principle, the computer security company McAfee points out that it has detected this virus in two applications in particular: Wallpapers Blur HD or in Booster & Cleaner Pro. Both have already been reported to Google to take action.

This is the message that appears once your mobile has been infected. It allows you 72 hours to pay before you proceed to send confidential information to your contacts.

From McAfee warns that if the rasnomware ends up infecting your mobile or you happen to pay the amount they ask: “if you do, you will be contributing to the proliferation of this type of business, which can cause a greater number of attacks. In addition, there is no guarantee that the information will be released, and may even be used to blackmail you later “. In any case, there are people who have agreed to pay and have managed to unlock the mobile, but it is not advisable to reach such an extreme and it is convenient to go to a trusted site or contact a virus cleaning company to find another solution .

Source: Fossbytes.