Yes, as the title says, your device is running with Android is not in immediate danger from the super scary monster Quadrooter malware.
Why
Το έχουμε συναντήσει πολλές φορές. Κάθε λίγο μια εταιρεία βγαίνει με ένα εντυπωσιακό τίτλο για το πώς εκατομμύρια χρήστες του Android κινδυνεύουν να μολυνθούν (ΚΙΝΔΥΝΟΣ! ΚΟΛΑΣΗ! κλπ) από έναν μεγάλο, κακό και πανέξυπνο ιό. Αμέτρητα είναι και τα μέσα μαζικής informations who convey the story, using the same (and worse) shocking way of presenting things, without actually understanding Android, security or the context surrounding it.
Namely: The latest Android malware that has scared both people, announced by an antivirus software company called Check Point, has been dubbed Quadrooter.
The company announced that 900 million (million!) users are at risk of data loss, loss of privacy, and possibly loss of bladder control - all because of the "Quadrooter" daemon and its presence in Qualcomm mobile processors.
"Without an advanced mobile threat detection solution on Android devices, there is little chance that a user would suspect any malicious behavior on their device," the company said in the panic-inducing post.
Well, we go again:
Only an advanced threat detection solution can stop it? Wait, like Check Point? It certainly seems very coincidental.
Η καλυμμένη διαφημιστική εκστρατεία της Check Point αφορά το προϊόν της που είναι μια λύση "ανίχνευσης κινητών απειλών και mitigration." ΌΜως αυτό που δεν ανέφερε η εταιρεία είναι ότι το Verify Apps υπάρχει ήδη σε όλες σχεδόν τις 900 εκατομμύρια συσκευές με Android. Έρχεται σαν μέρος του λειτουργικού συστήματος του Android από το 2012.
Verify Apps scans your device for potentially problematic programs so you can download new apps. THE application Verify Apps will stop you from installing any app that could compromise your device's security and warn you if an existing app starts doing something suspicious.
Verify Apps is available on every Android device that runs with 2.3 or a newer version of Android, and according to the latest Google platform measurements, there are 99,9% of active Android devices.
Google has confirmed that the system is already secure from each Quadrooter.
Oh! the malware monster is suddenly not so scary.
It's the same story we've seen every few months for years now, and the parameters are almost always the same:
A company that earns money from selling antivirus software publishes some big, bad viruses that attack Android devices.
Here are a few standard questions worth doing every time you hear about a new big and bad virus:
- Ποιος είναι πίσω από την "research" και ποιο είναι το κίνητρό του;
- Is this the threat associated with something I'm likely to download and install, or does it spin around a weird random app that you might never encounter?
- If you somehow try to install the software, maybe it stops my phone as it feels harmful?
- Has a user been affected by this?
You need to be sure that the malware monster will never die. There will always be someone who will display it with a different name and different disastrous properties. Companies like Check Point are constantly watching.
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