Alert : New Malicious Malware Text Message that can Erase Everything in your Android Phone

Alert !Watch out for that subsequent textual content message you receive.  A new malicious textual content message malware is available in the market to attack your Android smartphones. This malicious textual content message Android-based malware is competent to grant itself administrator privileges and utterly take over a users’ device.

Norwegian security company Heimdal has detected a foul piece of malware that spreads via SMS and tricks customers into downloading a malicious app, permitting it to gain administrator rights to the device.

This new malware is being called Mazar Android BOT and it is spread via SMS and MMS messages. The message will ordinarily look like this:
"You have received a multimedia message from +[country code] [sender number] Follow the link http://www.mmsforyou[.]Net/mms.apk to view your message”

As soon as it's mounted the malicious code embedded within offers the app administrator privileges. This makes it possible for attackers to retrieve device data, reveal calls and text messages, and root the device.

The Mazar malware also has the capacity to totally erase all the data/memory saved on an infected device. Not simplest would a customers’ device be infected however this type of move by means of attackers would render the device vain as good.

Alert !Watch out for that subsequent textual content message you receive.  A new malicious textual content message malware is available in the market to attack your Android smartphones. This malicious textual content message Android-based malware is competent to grant itself administrator privileges and utterly take over a users’ device.

Protection organization Heimdal thinks the malicious texts might were despatched to over a 100,000 telephones in Denmark, though it isn't sure whether or not customers in different countries will have acquired the messages or not

One interesting offer of Mazar is that it cannot be hooked up on smartphones having Android with “Russian” chosen as the operating system’s language.

Mazar has been that can be purchased on the dark net for particularly a whilst now but this is the primary time it has been actively used on the Android platform.

So the best way to keep away from this soiled malicious textual content message malware ? First off, users must now not click on links in text messages from strange recipients and not install unknown apps. Moreover, most customers must make sure unknown sources are not able to set up apps (Settings > security > Unknown sources)