Porn Site Spreads Malicious iOS App Beyond App Store

Owners of both jailbroken and non-jailbroken iPhones are the target of a malicious app distributed on a porn site. The app would be needed for supposedly watching a porn video. After installation, the user is, however, a message that he became a member of the porn site and now have to pay 700 euro or 2100 euro after three days.

To install the app do the scammers may use the Apple Developer Enterprise Program. Through this way it is possible to apps outside the Apple App Store to install. This program costs $ 299 per year and is primarily intended for companies that want to install self-developed applications on the phones of employees. Now it seems that scammers use this way of spreading their fraudulent app.

Before the installation begins, however, the user gets a message that it is an app from an untrusted developer. If the user then chooses the developer still trust the app is installed. Next, the app shows a membership page of the porn site and, after some time that the user has subscribed and to pay now.

For now, the scam would only be directed against Japanese users and there is also an Android variant in circulation.Symantec warns users not to pay the money and remove the app. In addition, Apple has been informed that the developer certificate that the app is signed can be revoked.

Phone Scammer Locks Browser With Pornographic Pictures

Phone Scammers have in recent years various tricks used to defraud people, such as simulating Blue Screen of Deaths in the browser to give all sorts of warnings, and a new variant is now underway with pornographic pictures and Javascript code.

The scams are all under the same steps, the user is notified that he has to call a help desk. This is called a help desk that allows the user into paying for undelivered services or products. The scam is slightly different from the phone scammers who call people at home, but the end result is the same.

In a new version of the scam the scammers lock the browser users with pornographic images in the background. Then a pop-up is displayed that there are suspicious activities on the computer and found a help desk to be called. To prevent users can easily connect the mention is made of javascript code usage.

According to anti-virus firm Malwarebytes discovered that the scam sends the phone number the user to a telephone exchange, where workers often pose as Microsoft staff and try to gain remote access to the computer. Then states that the computer malware and should be paid to remove it.

Porndroid - Android Ransomware Locks 180,000 Android Devices

A form of ransomware that focuses on Android devices and is distributed through fake porn sites has locked least 180,000 Android devices, claims a researcher. Porndroid such as ransomware is called, occurs when users need to install video player to pornographic content visit. Through various Traffic Distribution Systems (TDS), and especially malicious ads, mobile Internet users are redirected to porn sites.

According to researcher JuK of the blog Malware Do not Need Coffee is about 500,000 visitors each day who find themselves in this way on the fake porn sites. The websites instantly show a message that a "porn player" must be installed to view the porn video. However, it is a malicious app that asks, among other administrative privileges. Once installed, the malware is active and locks the device.

The ransomware locks the device with a so-called warning from the FBI stating that the user has committed a crime prohibited by visiting porn sites. The warning will be displayed as evidence four child pornography images and a photo of the user. This picture was taken secretly through the camera on the phone. To unlock the device should be a fine of $ 500 to be paid. Most victims of Porndroid-ransomware are located in the United States, says JuK.

Only in December were locked between 180,000 and 240,000 Android devices. Average hit every day 7,000 devices infected by the ransomware and between 0.4% and 1% of users pay the ransom. Together would have yielded the ransomware in December alone $ 500,000, says the researcher. The reason there is spoken in his little about Porndroid because the victims are ashamed.