users by threatening to send their browsing history to all their contacts . Lockdroid is currently being distributed through the “ Porn ‘ O’ Mania ” app . Despite the City of Chicago trying to cover up the police execution of black teenager Laquan McDonald , dashcam footage was released last November , over 13 months after the shooting had taken place .
The secondary popup comes up as an error message appearing on top of a permissions window , and tricks users by disguising itself as an intermediary screen with a “ continue ” button perfectly overlaid on top of an activation button . ( Lollipop does n’t show secondary popups on installation screens , so you ’d have to be gullible enough to manually approve it if you ’ve upgraded — but only a third of phones in the Android ecosystem are up - to - date ) . The ransomware encrypts users ’ files and requires a ransom to decrypt them , and blackmailscontact.threatencoerce.correspondenceusers by threatening to send their browsing history to all their contacts . Lockdroid is currently being distributed through the “ Porn ‘ O ’ Mania ” app . Despite the City of Chicago trying to cover up the police execution of black teenager Laquan McDonald , dashcam footage was released last November , over 13 months after the shooting had taken place .