The fame of Squid Game, the most successful TV series of Netflix ever, has now grown dramatically.The numbers of the last few days even speak of views of the series for over 142 million families with a record that seems to no longer want to stop.It is undoubtedly the most viewed TV series ever.A viral success made even more fascinating by the speed with which he took hold on the web.But all that glitters especially for users is not all gold.
Android: Over 200 Squid Game apps '' Fasulle '' with viruses
In fact, for a few days there are over 200 applications that appeared on the Google Play Store that declare themselves as games, support apps, or other people always and in any case Squid Game.To hide, however, there are real viruses within these applications that can strongly harm users by stealing them sensitive data or even ruining the smartphone on which they are installed.
Not all of them are clearly real virus carriers but many are of little quality and many others do only hide malware ready to take possession of the data inside the Android smartphone.One of all of all Squid Game Wallpaper that included the now famous Joker malware.The app was found by a researcher for the security of ESET, Lukas Stefanko, and reported for removing Google.
We know the malware Joker very well because in the past it has been used innumerable times to slip into users' smartphones.How?Joker is a malware capable of inserting himself within the memory of the smartphone and becoming a real '' spyware '' following all the user's activities and above all collect personal data of the user unaware.If this were not enough, Joker in some cases also turns into '' adware '' that is, it makes us dismissed the advertisements on the screen of the device which can be strongly harmful to users.There are stories of users who reported having received the notification of activation of some paid services never requested symptom that Joker has also undermined in this way.
In this case, the application of Squid Game Wallpaper quickly exceeded 5.000 Download, while the most unofficial popularized has clear the million in less than 10 days even if '' '' '' 'is not such a malicious app as the others.
Google will quickly run for cover by removing applications.The advice, however, for all users who had previously installed them is to remove them immediately from the smartphone and also suggest to delete the cache in order to no longer have a trace of what applications may have shared.If anomalies are presented to the smartphone, an additional advice is to carry out a '' cleanliness' of the device with a good antivirus or even more drastic action is to restore the smartphone by eliminating all the content if there are further problems.