Data lost in my Phone(Android)
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Likely this was some kind of failed ransomware.
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@scottalanmiller two person from WhatsApp tried this both got same problem.all data wiped out
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@Lakshmana said in Data lost in my Phone(Android):
@scottalanmiller two person from WhatsApp tried this boot got same problem.all data wiped out
Why are people downloading APKs from WhatApp? That is crazy. Of course they are losing their data. That's exactly what you would expect.
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@scottalanmiller the group members shared apk so tried in phone
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@Lakshmana said in Data lost in my Phone(Android):
@scottalanmiller the group members shared apk so tried in phone
Why would people on WhatsApp be sharing APKs like this? They should know that no one should ever accept files like that. That's a very predatory way to share files. Unless you personally know every person in that group and have verified them as someone you trust, that's about the worst place I could possible imagine to get something to install.
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@scottalanmiller I don't know anyone in that group.they Sharing hacking stuffs it seems
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@Lakshmana said in Data lost in my Phone(Android):
@scottalanmiller I don't know anyone in that group.they Sharing hacking stuffs it seems
I'm not sure what to tell you. You should never, ever be installing software like this. The reason that you would expect someone to share software in a group like that is for the purpose of stealing your data or holding it ransom. This is the kind of security that we talk about every day, how end users are constantly tricked into installing software from an untrusted source and how this is the core of all security holes. This is called a trojan horse because the attack vector is convincing a human to give control to the malicious software, the software doesn't have to be very fancy since all of the real work is in tricking the human.
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Why are you even in that WhatsApp group? What is its purpose?
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@scottalanmiller there is no purpose in that group.I was being invited by different group for that group as apk share group.so joined there
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@Lakshmana said in Data lost in my Phone(Android):
@scottalanmiller there is no purpose in that group.I was being invited by different group for that group as apk share group.so joined there
I hate to say it, but this is just getting worse and worse. To us it sounds like "I was invited to a malicious software attack group"... so I joined and installed malware!
Every step of this is "this is exactly what you should have expected." And you should instantly distance yourself from that group, anyone in it and anyone that told you about it.
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@scottalanmiller I thought it was knowledge transfer group but now only knows about their malicious thinking
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@Lakshmana said in Data lost in my Phone(Android):
@scottalanmiller I thought it was knowledge transfer group but now only knows about their malicious thinking
Sadly, yes. A tip here is that a knowledge transfer group would never provide software in this way. Just the act of doing so should warn you of what kind of group it is.
