Android has discovered an extremely dangerous new type of malware that has generated a lot of question marks among users all over the world who are trying to protect their phones as best as possible from current problems. More precisely, we are talking about a new type of malware called Process Manager, which was discovered in some of the applications distributed through various application stores, but not in the Google Play Store.
Android is a very complex operating system, and quite well protected by Google through the security systems it has implemented, but people must also be extremely vigilant at the moment. According to cyber security experts who managed to analyze this new type of malware, it is able to access the microphone of the phones to listen to what the people using them are saying.
Android: Millions of People ALERT about a Serious Problem
Android can also be exploited by malware that can read SMS messages that arrive in phones, but also other types of notifications, all without the victim knowing what happens in their own phone in everyday life. The hackers who created this malware thought of it in a rather intelligent way, so that in the operating system its application is displayed with a system icon, so that people do not try to delete it.
Android allows users to control a variety of very important functions, and this malware also takes advantage of this, which asks for permissions including to access camera images, or even information about the location of phones. Of course, access to integrated or added storage media is something that this malware wants to gain access to in order to extract as much information as possible from infected Android phones.
Android can't be effectively protected by Google if people don't know how to protect themselves against this type of malware, so it's important to be extremely vigilant about what you install on your phones.
