TROJAN THAT DESTROY YOUR PHONE FOUND ON PLAYSTORE(REMEDY)

Talking about virus I've always believed downloading third party ANDROID  applications are  the only reason why you could be infected or rooting your device
, but that seems not to be  the case anymore
Researchers have uncovered a new  trend  of advertising spyware in more than 100 Android application downloadable from the official Google Play Store.
The research team at Russian security firm Doctor Web first added the Trojan, which they called Android.Spy.277.origin, to its virus database on April 1st, 2016.
"A Trojan for Android that steals confidential information and delivers advertisements. It is distributed via bogus versions of popular Android applications on the Google Play store."
Specifically, the malware experts found the Trojan in 104 Android applications available for download on the Google Play Store. Those application claim to offer  photo editing services, animated wallpaper themes, and other programs... but in most cases, they don't work as they claim.
In total, the application affected by Android.Spy.277.origin are believed to have been downloaded by a staggering 3.2 million users.
The infection process works as follows.
Once a user has installed one of the malicious application, the Trojan collects nearly 30 different pieces of information about the user's device and transmits them to a remote server operated by a attacker.
"At every launch of any installed application, the Trojan  resend all the information mentioned before together with the name of the running application."
For example, the Trojan can try to intimidate the user into installing unwanted applications onto their devices.

Alternatively, it can display advertising notifications in an infected device's status bar as well as create shortcuts on the Android home screen leading to sections of the Google Play store.
To be realistic this Trojan can temporarily destroy your phone
(SAMPLE PICTURE OF ITS EFFECT)

Doctor Web has notified Google, whose teams have begun to remove some of the malicious application from the Play Store.
While Google sorts out that problem, Android users are urged to install an anti-virus solution on their devices and to install application only from trusted app developers.
I'll recommend CM SECURITY , NORTON ANTIVIRUS,  or any other you know

How Can I Avoid this Malware?

>>To stay protected, always review the developer when downloading an application, and should be wary of unknown developers with very little or no background information, as they could be the source of malicious application.

Just make sure you're sure of what you want to install before doing that

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