‘Aarogya Setu’ app to track to the real-time movements of citizens to identify if they are near COVID-19 patients, thus offers better surveillance for the government but unfortunately comes with some privacy warnings from cybersecurity experts and analysts.
An android application which facilitates the coronavirus infection tacker appears to be a ransomware in disguise, as it locks the devices and asks for ransom.
Security researchers at Kaspersky have identified a new mobile Trojan called Ginp that is capable of infecting Android devices. Banking Trojans usually access SMS in mobile devices to identify the one-time codes, once gaining access to apps, then the Trojan will have extensive access over the device and banking apps in particular.
Android Xiny is malware that enters the device, remove the preinstalled applications that controls the root privilege access, after removing those applications, Android Xiny gets root access to the device.
