THE SUN
ALL Android owners have been warned over a new strain of malware that can hide from antivirus programmes.
It is reportedly capable of stealing sensitive data, such as banking information and also deploying nasty ransomware.
Ransomware is a type of virus which stops users from being able to access their own devices – as well as everything that’s stored on it.
It encrypts files and leaves the device essentially useless and the user locked out.
Criminal cyber gangs use this as a ploy to demand ransom from their victim.
Cybersecurity experts at CloudSEK’s threat intelligence research team rang the alarm on this new form of virus.
The malware, which researchers have dubbed Daam, is targeting Android phones as well as Windows PCs.
But Daam was found to be particularly invasive on mobile phones.
It has the ability to record audio from an Android device, without any action from the owner of the phone.
