It's called Android / Koler.A and is known as 'Police Virus' to Android phones. The Civil Guard has already warned of their existence and Panda offers a number of tips for smartphone users can protect themselves from it. And it is a malware which, although not able to encrypt data on your phone, it's quite annoying and difficult to remove if the phone does not have antivirus for this operating system. Displays a message on screen that stands above all else and the user only has a few seconds, five in particular, to try to uninstall it.
Countries such as Germany, Finland, France, Greece, Norway, United States, Portugal, United Kingdom, Italy, Sweden, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and Switzerland are some of your goals, among which is also Spain. Their method of operation is very similar to Trojans operating on Windows: several scripts to geotag the device and display the message in the local language and images of the security forces in the area. Then stores information of all infected in the database and adds the MD5 of malware that has infected devices. Thus, cybercriminals can track the number of infections achieved with each variant of the virus and measure the success of different campaigns they infect.
So, if a user is infected with the "virus of the police", most likely not have installed on your Android mobile antivirus. The first thing you see is a display of 'infection'. From there the malware disables the 'back' button, so it becomes unusable, but can still go to 'Home' to get to the desk phone and try to get to the application menu and uninstall the malicious application. The bad news is that you only have five seconds to try, as indicated screen appears every five seconds.
If this time is not enough, another option is for the user to restart the phone in 'safe mode'. Thus, those with a pure version of Android, a Nexus or Motorola, all you have to do is go off menu and press for a couple of seconds on 'Off', until a message appears asking if It is to restart in Safe Mode. Once the phone has rebooted and you can uninstall this malicious application. To revert back to normal mode all you have to do is reboot the phone normally. In the other case, in which the phone has installed a customized version of Android, can be determined easily how to restart in Safe Mode using Google.
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