{"id":5629,"date":"2016-11-10T09:30:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T14:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/?p=5629"},"modified":"2017-02-06T15:10:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T20:10:44","slug":"300000-android-devices-affected-using-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/300000-android-devices-affected-using-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 300,000 Android Devices Affected Using Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers are quietly compromising bank information and using Google Chrome as a vehicle. The fraudulent virus detector uses adware with a Google logo to build trust with the user. Once the user clicks the \u2018Remove Virus Now\u2019 button, a virus is instantly added to their device.<\/p>\n<p>Problems like these can be solved with select antivirus apps designed for Android devices. Click below to use PSafe to scan for threats and eliminate any hidden viruses.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"psafe:\/\/launch\/antivirus_quick\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4696 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/BOTAO_EN_AV-1-300x78.png\" alt=\"Run Virus Scan\" width=\"300\" height=\"78\" \/><\/a><\/center>The virus is in the form of a .apk file once the button to remove the virus and will not request approval upon download. Google is taking actions to address the issue, but hackers are still using an evergreen technique to continue infecting devices by way of malicious app downloads.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5657\" src=\"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/virus-android-chrome-1.png\" alt=\"virus android chrome\" width=\"636\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PSafe\u2019s security team also recommends keep the Antiphising feature activated. It blocks malicious websites in their tracks combined with an anti-virus that eliminates the virus on your device altogether. To check or remove any vulnerabilities and keep the Antiphishing enabled, click below.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"psafe:\/\/launch\/antivirus_quick\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4696 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/BOTAO_EN_AV-1-300x78.png\" alt=\"Run Virus Scan\" width=\"300\" height=\"78\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The threat is \u2018just a pop-up\u2019 but the issue has only been growing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3671,674,3668,161],"class_list":["post-5629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-antiphising","tag-chrome","tag-devices","tag-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}