Pokémon GO: discovered an APK that hides a malware, attention!

    As surely many of you will already know, the much talked about Pokemon Go currently it is not yet available on the Italian territory, however many Italian fans of Pokemon are already delighting in the capture of pocket monsters by relying on the download of APK.

    Going into specifics, the Proofpoint researchers have amazingly discovered one APK of the game which hides a dangerous malware through which all our sensitive data can be safely stolen. The malware we are talking about is called DroidJack, that is to say "a Trojan horse for smartphones equipped with the Android operating platform that creates a backdoor on the compromised device and steals information,



    Pokémon GO: discovered an APK that hides a malware, attention!

    In reality, from what little we have understood the virus is fortunately not widespread yet, but we could immediately recognize it when downloading Pokemon Go, in fact in the screen of the permissions to be accepted for the applications, in the malicious app there are the points that you can see in the shot below:



    Pokémon GO: discovered an APK that hides a malware, attention!

    Be careful if you proceed to download an APK Pokémon GO.

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