Adult Player to 'squeeze' users

Adult Player extorted $ 500 from users.

An application is malicious based on Android that could be used to extort money from users successfully found the US computer security company, Zscaler.



Adult Player application offers to the users of adult pornography but secretly photographed by the camera in the phone.

After that the application will lock the phone in question and demanded a fee of US $ 500, or about 7 million are hard to ignore.

Although Adult Player is not available in stores official application, such as Google Play, but it can be downloaded directly from the Internet.

Adult Player is not available in the app store yet downloaded directly from the Internet.

A computer security expert told the BBC extortion as it gives a great income and a growing Internet crime.

Applications that require a fee from users with the threat of spreading one's personal secrets or interfere with the equipment known as ransomware.

In August, Intel Security said examples of ransomware increased by 127% since 2014, and most PCs and laptops.

"One reason for the increase is very easy to make," said Raj Samani, Intel Chief Technology Security in Europe.

"There are people who can get paid to do it and good earnings. One of the groups we track gets US $ 75,000 within 10 weeks." (bbc)