A million Google accounts hacked – NRK

It is sikkerhetsfirmaet Check Point have detected the virus, a trojan that has been named Gooligan.

Gooligan is found in a variety of apps that offer everything from faster Wi-Fi access to calculators and lommelyktfunksjoner. Some claiming to be affiliated with Google or Youtube, and any attacks coming through the so-called phishing.

Once the software has gained access to your phone, switch it into the owner’s Google account.

Thus, the access to Gmail and any skylagringstjenester, as well as Google Play. Where it can download more apps with advertising and give them stars and reviews through your account, as the hacker gets paid.

mobile Phones that use the Android operating system “JellyBean”, “KitKat” and “Lollipop” is hit. These constitute 74 percent of Android phones that are in use today.

The last two versions, “Marshmallow” and “Nougat” and yet seem to be immune. Have you not updated the os for a while, it’s time now.

the Virus can download new apps via the Google account.

Photo: Justin Sullivan / AFP

Frames 13.000 each day

Among the accounts that are affected so far is nine per cent european, 19 per cent of u.s. and 57 per cent asian. It is unknown how many of the Norwegian accounts that are affected. NRK has asked both Google and Check Point, but has not yet received a reply.

the code Itself was discovered in the last year, but a new variant appeared in august of this year. According to Check Point infects the new version around 13.000 phones every day.

According to Forbes, this is the largest theft of Google accounts ever recorded.

We see a strategiskifte from hackers, who now pays his gaze towards the mobile phones in order to obtain sensitive information that is stored on them, says the Check Points mobilsjef Michael Shaulov.

You can test whether your account is affected

Here you can test whether your account is affected.

the Company has reported the virus to Google. They are now cooperating to find the source of Gooligan.

According to Google, the purpose of the virus first and foremost the promotion of the apps and the advertising, not the theft of personal data.

Google’s Android chief, Adrian Ludwig writes that Gooligan, a virusfamilie that goes under the name “Ghost Push”.

In the course of the last year took Google over 40,000 infected apps. Now you are up in the over 150.000 different varieties of virusfamilien.