The Loapi Trojan malware could blow up your Android phone

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Android malware reaches a new high (or maybe "a new low," depends on how you see it) with the Loapi Trojan, a piece of code which could push the infective devices to the limit for mining Monero tokens until they blow up. Looking back, some might still remember the notorious Chernobyl/Spacefiller virus, shortly known as CIH, a malware which was designed to overwrite critical data on infective system drives, sometimes alextremely destroying the system BIOS. The Loapi Trojan could make an Android handdetermine "literally go up in smoke," detects the well-known multinational anti-virus provider Kaspersky Lab. The Loapi Trojan has a modular structure and could do a lot of damage. Sadly, they did'nt announce the brand and model of which test device.

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