Adobe Flash might be dead, but Android malware campaigns are flourishing, with the latest one potentially spreading like wildfire using text messages and APKs. Here's how you can stay safe.
What do you get when you combine the untimely death of a hugely popular piece of software once used on everything from smartphones to PCs with the insatiable thirst for unlawful financial gains of highly skilled hackers?that, to be perfectly honest, should be pretty easy to avoid by now for anyone who's done even the least amount of research possible on this sort of stuff before.
That's because, once your phone is infected, one of the symptoms of said infection will be the unauthorized access of your contacts, with the added malware ability of sending text messages without user permission.Bottom line, no matter where a linkto be coming from, you should exercise good judgment and refuse to install random APK files.
A good idea in such a case would probably be to ask whoever sends you a message containing a potentially malicious link one or two simple questions, thus making sure their intentions are pure.If the name FluBot happens to ring a bell, that might be because the same trojan has infected countless devices in the past using methods as diverse as
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