Google has eliminated an application for Android this Play Store once Symantec security researchers noticed that accessed this application, scanned and stored a large amount of users personal photographs unless they were aware of it. The existence of this app that stole photos from users is further evidence of the importance of verifying the permissions they access applications.
The application in question appeared under the name of HTML Source Code Viewer, developed by Sunuba Gaming. As well our partners in ADSLZone, Google Play Store there is another application available with the same name, only that the developer of the app is not the same as the malicious application that stole photos from users.
Although this application already has been eliminated from the market of applications, is of vital importance that all those that users that have with the app installed in your team it eliminate by full as soon as possible. However, since the site’s security alert that it was only downloaded and installed by fewer than 5,000 user.
How stole this app the photos of those users?
The objective of the present in Play Store app was read code HTML source of a page that we deployed it manually. Curiously, it application exercised this function to the perfection, but what not knew them confident users is that, while showed them “casings” of a website any, in second flat and with the full ignorance of the victim, it app ran a code malicious that allowed access to the Gallery of photos to scan all them images to backs of the owner of the smartphone.
Symantec, the company that has discovered this app that stole the photos from users, says that they have managed to access the cloud where they stored all these images, which has multimedia content since March of last year.
“This personal media could be used to blackmail the victims, attacks ransomware, steals the identity, or any criminal act that passes through the head”, say from Symantec.
Is for this reason that both the company’s safety like ourselves you recoramos the importance of verifying that permissions are requesting certain Play Store downloaded applications to detect, as in this case, what need there is of an application designed to read the HTML code of a web page to access the Gallery from our terminal.
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The article alert of an app that stealing the user’s picture was published in MovilZona.