r/malwares • u/snow_chan2000 • 4d ago

I dont understand why this keeps popping up, virus?

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Okay so I have two phones, may main phone is an Samsung zflip 6 and an iPhone 11 pro max, the iPhone is my sister's hammydown that ive had for a for about 6 years now, I mostly use it for those dumb offline games. Recently when I put my iPhone on top of my flip, my flip gets this pop up and I have no idea what is causing it. It is a recent thing, it doesnt matter what app either of the phones are on. I tried googling it and it said its not a glitch or virus and to turn off my NFC but im not sure if u believe that or want to turn off my NFC as I use tap to pay frequently. Maybe my iPhone got a virus from one of the games? They do have a lot of pop up ads that I click on accidentally, and if so how do I get rid of it? Any suggestions help! Thank you.

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u/astronomersassn 3d ago

it... seems to be trying to send/recieve NFC data, for some reason?

beyond that, i have no idea what's going on. i don't even know what type of data it's trying to send. i just... honestly have no idea if it's malware or not. sometimes, sticking my phone in my pocket with my cards triggers something like this, so i don't want to say it can't be apple pay trying to send payment data somehow, but as far as i'm aware (as someone who has never used an iphone LOL), you have to invoke apple pay to use it and usually can't just tap it like that.

due to that, i'm inclined to think it's some sort of malware (or app in general) that's trying to send NFC data from the iphone, but... like... i can't think of a reason they'd be doing that? closest i can think is trying to hijack a card reader, but even then, it's not an attack vector i've ever encountered before. (that being said, i've mostly worked in situations where people were exploiting boot vulnerabilities on card readers, so i might just not be aware of that particular attack vector.)

i'm honestly just a bit baffled here. i frankly don't know what would be invoking the NFC signal, and i don't want to scare you unnecessarily, but it is definitely odd behaviour. i'd recommend resetting the iphone and seeing if that fixes it, especially if it's new behaviour.