FBI: Android-device - it's just a paradise for malware
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Relatively open Android operating system and the absence of strict control over the Google applications that fall on Google Play, endanger the platform users and their mobile devices. This has already started talking even the FBI, as well as an example resulted quite common on Android malware Loozfon and FinFisher.
Usually the spectrum of malicious actions of this kind of application is quite wide, they can simply copied to remote servers address books of users or the entire block work smartphones. That is why the owners of Android-based devices are calling to be careful and cautious - just as in a desktop PC (mainly refers to the Windows-machines, although there are successful attacks on OS X).
When you load new applications not only need to study carefully the comments of other users, but also to consider what level of access to the system are requested. For example, the program must be alerted to request location determination device owner via location-based services. This information can be used only to send targeted advertising but hackers use it to organize a virtual persecution of human or even a real burglary.
Representatives of the Federal Bureau advised the owners of Android-smartphone to use a password to access their devices and connect only to known and trusted Wi-Fi networks. operating system update will also help in maintaining the proper level of security. And on the implementation of full access to the OS file system (the so-called Root-access - analogue jailbreak on iOS) and out of the question should not be, according to the FBI believes.
[via BGR]