Google: Lockdroid Ransomware Failed to Infect Any Android Devices

Jack

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At the Security Analyst Summit (SAS 2016) held in Tenerife, Spain last week, Elena Kovakina, senior security analyst at Google said no Android users have been fooled into installing the Lockdroid ransomware, IT PRO reports.

Cyber-security firm Symantec detected a new variant of the Android.Lockdroid ransomware towards the end of January.

Lockdroid is using a complex clickjacking trick to infect devices
This particular version was abusing an older UI feature that allowed the malware's author to show a secondary overlay on top of the screen that required admin privileges for the app infected with the Lockdroid ransomware.

When users were pushing a button that read "Continue" (on the top-most overlay), they were unknowingly pushing the "Activate" button shown underneath, as part of an attack scenario known as clickjacking.

This issue affected two-thirds of the Android userbase, which is over a billion users. More precisely, the issue affected those users using versions of the Android operating system prior to 5.0 (Lollipop).

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Well we all know that Android security built in are far from what we should expect, and usually those patches of updates deployed as minor fixes; so a different story where 3rd party AV and proper configuration is need for users who conscious much.

+ The environment of mobile OS when it comes on viruses outbreak are indeed more annoying than nasty concepts.
 
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