Analysts at Zscaler say that the Adult Player software available for Android is malicious.
It says a few customers have had photographs taken of them without permission, earlier than their telephones were locked through the people in the back of the software program.
The photos of the customers are then included into a virtual ransom be aware soliciting for $500 (£330) to be paid via PayPal.
In return, the attackers promise to unlock the phones and delete the illicit photo.
However even customers who have paid the ransom sum say their phones were left unusable.
But Zscaler says there may be a way to eliminate the malicious software program without paying a penny.
The cellphone need to be booted up in safe mode, where - once in tool administrator mode - the app can be selected and disabled.
Apps which demand cash with a chance to launch private records, or brick a tool, are known as ransomware.
Person participant can not be mounted from Google Play, but may be hooked up at once from a website.
Zscaler said humans have to handiest installation apps from the respectable keep, and entreated humans to back up their information so if they are hit through ransomware attackers they could wipe their device and reload their statistics.
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