Netflix, the largest on-demand video streaming platform on the planet, is at the center of a very serious alert targeting tens of millions of subscribers who also use it on Android phones or tablets. More precisely, it seems that an application has arrived in the Google Play Store that is presented as a clone of Netflix, but which in reality is full of malware for Android, and with its help it can steal a variety of people's data very easily.
Netflix has an official application in the Google Play Store, but one called FlixOnline appeared separately from it, and it promises users access to the streaming platform, but what it offers them is only malware. The application asks for a multitude of permissions when first opened, and through them it creates fake login interfaces for Netflix, and many other applications, stealing the login data that people enter there, then blocking access to those accounts.
Netflix: ALERT for Millions of People Worldwide
Netflix has nothing to do with applications of this kind, but unfortunately it cannot even block them because they are distributed through the Google application store. This malware hidden in an application that clones Netflix is also able to hide the notifications of the WhatsApp application, and to spread itself through messages sent through the platform to the contact address, taking over all the messages received by users at the same time.
Netflix has repeatedly told its subscribers not to download other applications than the official one, and this is a very clear example of the point of listening to the messages coming from the company from this point of view. If a Netflix account is stolen by hackers, it is quite difficult to recover, so the users are the ones who should take care of the downloaded applications, this one full of this malware being removed by Google from its store.
Netflix has links to its iPhone and Android apps posted right on its website, so you can go from there directly to what you should download to be safe.
