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What to do if your Android device falls victim to a ransomware attack?

All of a sudden, you find yourself staring at a locked screen with no ability to use your phone or access any of its contents. Your first impulse may be to pay the ransom and make the problem go away. Don’t do it! For one thing, there’s no guarantee that paying the ransom will actually make the problem go away. You’re relying on the integrity of criminals, after all. Also, if they see that you’re willing to pay, then you’re putting an even bigger target on your back for future attacks. As long as ransomware attacks continue to work, cybercriminals will continue to use them.
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There are two ways to deal with a traditional ransomware attack in which you’re locked out of your Android device. First, you should try to reboot the device in Safe Mode, revoke Device Administrator privileges (if you granted them to the app)  and then delete the app, program, or plug-in caused the problem.

Here are the steps to boot into Safe Mode*:

1: Press and hold the smartphone’s power button.
2: A “power off” button will appear on the screen that lets you turn off the device.
3: Turn your device back on by pressing and holding the power button while simultaneously pressing both the volume up and volume down buttons.
https://technicalethicalhacking.blogspot.com/2018/09/what-to-do-if-your-android-device-falls.html 4: When the device powers on, look for the words Safe Mode at the bottom of the screen.
5: Go to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications, then find and uninstall the corrupt application.
* The process to boot into Safe Mode may vary slightly between different Android devices. Check your user manual.
If you can’t boot into Safe Mode or it doesn’t solve the problem, then your only course of action is to reset your device to its factory settings. This will fix the problem, but it will also erase all the data and settings stored on the device. If you backup your device on a regular basis, either to a computer or the cloud, then you’ll have no problem recovering most, if not all, of your data. So, now is as good a time as any to stress how important it is to perform regular system backups.

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