As soon as you have read or heard news from the world of technology in recent days, you will have heard of WannaCry. This ransomware has brought thousands of users around the world, especially large companies to which it they stole the data and those who were asked, in exchange for these as a ransom, financial compensation.
Well now WannaCry might have its version for Android devices. The Avast blog, one of the most famous antivirus on the market today, has reported a ransomware called WannaLocker and that it is affecting several Android users in China, who through forums have explained their unpleasant experience.
As with WannaCry, once infected with WannaLocker, users find their Android smartphone completely locked, without having access to the file system or anything. To be able to regain our supposedly encrypted files asks users for a paymentIn this small case, it is only about 5-6 dollars, which logically if it becomes effective does not guarantee anything, as has happened with WannaCry.
How have users in China been infected with this ramsonware? Well, through a very popular Android game in the country and not so well known in these parts: King of Glory. Users downloaded and installed an APK thinking it was a new plugin for this game, but that in the end it was not.
As we say, this has happened in China and not on a large scale, so in principle it does not seem that we are facing a great threat. But this version of WannaCry is not the only ransomware that is out there putting the data on our smartphones at risk, so it doesn't hurt to take certain security measures to avoid unpleasantness.