What is Gooligon?
Gooligon is malware, Which attack hijacks Andriod mobile phones and them to download unauthosised apps from outside the Google play Store and also Steal your data from your email.A new malware attack is hitting andriod devices at an estimated rate of 13,000 smartphones every day.
How to check if you’ve been hacked?
Check Point has built a ‘Gooligan checker’ where Android users can enter the email associated with their Android device to check if their Google account has been breached.
What do when account is hacked?
If your account has been hacked by Gooligan, there are a couple of steps you should take to wipe the infection from your device. First, ask an Android technician to ‘flash’ your device by installing a clean version of the latest supported version of Android OS onto your device. Once you’ve reinstalled the OS, make sure to change all of your Google account passwords.
