Android has issued a warning regarding 25 applications from the Google Play Store, out of a total of 170 discovered globally, which represent a danger for those who install them in their phones. We are talking about applications that promise to give users the opportunity to mine cryptocurrencies with their help, but which in reality just leave people without money without giving them anything in return, which is the big problem with this type of malicious attack.
Android is the most used operating system for mobile phones, something that generates a lot of interest from hackers, who try to steal people's data by any means. Taking advantage of some people's interest in cryptocurrencies, the hackers who created these 170 applications promise them that in exchange for a monthly amount they will have access to a cloud that will mine cryptocurrencies for them, but everything is just a new trick for those with Android.
Android: Warning regarding 25 Dangerous Applications
Android does not offer protection against tricks of this kind because we are not talking about a danger produced by any type of malware, but by people's naivety, and for that there is no protection. The applications were distributed through the Google Play Store for Android phones, and there are probably others that promise the same thing, they are difficult to discover because they promise to provide information about cryptocurrencies, the possibility of mining, or purchase, but they also include these scams.
Android offers the possibility to install applications that mine cryptocurrencies, although it is useless with a mobile phone, but those who want to can do this, but these applications offered this alternative in the cloud at costs of 12 - 350 dollars. It seems that there would have been enough people who would have paid for these services, the computer security company from which the warning comes estimating that 93.000 Android users would have been tricked into handing over their money.
Android can be protected against many types of attacks, but those aimed at tricking people into handing over their money are extremely difficult to detect ahead of time.
