An Android Porn App Takes Your Photo and Holds It to Ransom

Users of the “ Adult Player ” Android app are in for a jar : it ’s emerged that the Android app has been secretly taking exposure of users – and require their cash in substitution for deletion .

The Register reportsthat security firm Zscaler was first to espy the app , which presents itself as a normal video playacting app , albeit for play videos of an adult nature . Apparently once it has mutely snatch up photos of its victim it will exhibit a message on sieve demanding that they ante up $ 500 . Otherwise , well … do you need people knowing you ’ve used the app ?

on the face of it once the ransom money message appears it will persist sterilize on your telephone set covert , even if you reboot . Whilst no doubt highly illegal and bad and incorrect , you have to admire how clever the ruse is .

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But there is good news : Adult Player is n’t actually available on the Google child’s play entrepot , and to expend it users will have to have installed the app ’s APK file cabinet manually , checking the boxwood in configurations to allow their phones to run apps from non - trusted sources . So there ’s no demand to be too nervous when downloading unexampled apps to your phone . If an app was listed in the app storage , apart from the fact that Google would likely intercept it from being print in the first place , if it wanted to employ your photographic camera you would have to grant it explicit license .

So let this be a moral : If you want to permit a porn app do anything to your phone , make indisputable you use an app that ensures that it does it , umm , explicitly .

[ The Register ]

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