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    Android crypto-mining malware can cause device damage

    Loapi mines Monero so aggressively that a test Android smartphone's battery started to bulge.
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    Re: Android crypto-mining malware can cause device damage

    .......WhatsAPP, AVG, AVIRA ......?? hackers can also back door their own Kaspersky mobile App

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    Re: Android crypto-mining malware can cause device damage

    Probably they are just copying the icon and made a fake app that looks like the one they are pretending to be

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    Re: Android crypto-mining malware can cause device damage

    AVG is a massive POS. My company has struggled to use it for our clients for the past 5-6 years. It has about a 1% detection success rate and about a 99% false-positive detection success rate. And since AVG bought Avast!, even the Avast! product has seen itself go down hill. I used to trust Kaspersky in the late 90s early 2000s, and then they started doing bad stuff and working for the Russian goverment, so that trust has long gone out the window.

    And to put my conspiracy hat on for just a sec, Kaspersky "found" this malware? Where? In their internal virus lab?
    Last edited by peterb; 23-12-2017 at 11:10 AM. Reason: Admin edit for swear filter

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    Re: Android crypto-mining malware can cause device damage

    "and then they started doing bad stuff and working for the Russian goverment"

    mindless follower.

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