Locks your phone till $300 is paid, claims you viewed illegal porn.
According to the article:-
The malware prevents users from accessing the home screen of their phones, making it impossible to use most other apps installed on the phone. The normal phone functions in some cases can be restored only when the user pays a "fine" of about $300, using untraceable payment mechanisms such as Paysafecard or uKash.
The functions in Koler.A have been obfuscated to slow down the process of analyzing exactly how the malware works. Still, there's no evidence that the malware encrypts any files on a phone's storage.
The malicious Android Package is automatically downloaded when people visit certain pornography sites using an Android phone. The sites then claim that the APK installs a video player used for premium access. To be infected, a user must change Android settings to allow out-of-market apps and then manually install the APK. The social engineering trick has already claimed at least 68 victims in the past six hours—40 in the United Arab Emirates, 12 in the UK, six in Germany, five in the US, and the rest in Italy and Poland.
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