{"id":83179,"date":"2016-07-13T17:03:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T11:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/?p=83179"},"modified":"2016-09-30T15:48:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T10:18:59","slug":"beware-of-the-godless-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/beware-of-the-godless-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of the Godless Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might have heard of the Godless Android malware that surfaced last month. This post explains some important facts around the malware, and how you can stay away from it.<\/p>\n

What is the Godless Malware?
\n<\/strong>Carrying a bit of an intimidating name, ‘Godless’ is a malware that targets Android phones that run Android Lollipop 5.1 and earlier. The malware was found to be present on apps available in third-party stores and even official stores such as Google Play.<\/p>\n

What does the Godless malware do?
\n<\/strong>Once the malware has successfully infected an Android phone, it roots the device. By \u2018rooting\u2019 it means to attain privileged control of the system to carry out tasks that cannot be performed otherwise. Once Godless has rooted the infected device, it performs the following operations:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Steals the user\u2019s Google account credentials
\n\u2022 Can install or uninstall shortcuts
\n\u2022 Installs unwanted apps which can act as backdoors to allow entry of additional malware
\n\u2022 Installs spyware that steal personal information<\/p>\n

How Quick Heal helps?
\n<\/strong>Quick Heal Mobile Security Apps detects and blocks two variants of this malware viz. \u2018Android.Godless.A\u2019 & \u2018Android.Godless.B\u2019.<\/p>\n

Safety precautions to take<\/strong><\/p>\n