Android is once again at the center of an alert message that targets millions of phones around the world, and that's because we're talking about an extremely serious problem that some people don't even know about. A malware named Medusa is in full distribution throughout the world at this time, and unfortunately it was designed to steal people's money without them knowing that they are deprived of any amount until it is too late.
Android is a safe operating system, but when a malware of this kind is installed on the phone together with an infected application, things start to get complicated, unfortunately. This new malware called Medusa is designed to steal from Android the passwords that people use to log in to various online services, including banking applications, and from there hackers can steal people's money without them knowing what is actually happening, and here it is the biggest problem.
Android is not only exploited at this level, and this is because including the SMS, pictures and video clips from the phones, plus a variety of other important information are extracted by the malware. The distribution of this new malware is done in Android through malicious messages distributed via email and SMS, a classic method also used for the distribution of other types of malware, they proved to be successful in the past, so they are used again by attackers.
Android cannot be a safe operating system as long as people do not avoid installing malicious applications in their mobile phones, something that not everyone knows they should avoid, unfortunately.
“Despite the fact that Medusa is not extremely widespread at the moment, we are seeing an increase in the volume of campaigns and a sufficiently large number of different campaigns. With multiple remote access features, Medusa poses a critical threat to financial organizations in the targeted regions.”
In this situation, some of the money that ends up being stolen by the attackers through campaigns of this kind from the users of Android phones can no longer be recovered, which represents the big problem of attacks of this kind, in the end.
Android is protected by Google through various systems that are meant to prevent this type of malware from infecting phones by itself, but users are the ones who generally start the problems.
