Fake Android porn app takes your photo, then holds it ransom (techradar.com).
“Smartphones have traditionally been a handy place to indulge in adult content without anyone watching over you. Until now. Security research firm Zscaler has found a nasty piece of ransomware that tricks users into thinking they are downloading an Android-based pornography app. Once the app is opened, the ransomware takes a photo of the smartphone owner using the front camera, locks the phone and demands $500 (£330) to unlock the device.”
And all that to indulge your porn pleasure on a flippin’ 3 and half inch screen. Seriously, I’m waiting for the first call from one of the “I don’t look at that sorta thing” elderly u-kippers in the block now; it was “granny porn” he wasn’t looking at that somehow leapt up and jumped on his Android last time (Latest Picks 21 Aug. 2014) and I can’t wait to hear the excuse for why “the ransom message keeps the handset’s screen switched on at all times and comes back to haunt users even after the phone is restarted.”
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