Citizen Conan (=Fishing Eyes Police) is developed and jointly operated by National Police University Public Safety Policy Research Institute and Infiniguru Co., Ltd..
It is the only ‘voice phishing public-private joint response network service’ in Korea that prevents voice phishing.
Citizen Conan is a malicious app instantaneous detector developed at the request of front-line police officers to detect malicious apps used in voice phishing, and is the same app as the former Fishing Eyes Police.
Citizen Conan detects apps used for voice phishing, such as malicious apps and remote control apps, and Phishing Eyes detects 'malicious apps', 'remote control apps', 'smishing', and 'phishing' related to all fraudulent processes of voice phishing. It includes most detection functions such as ‘calling with a criminal’, ‘malicious IP/URL detection’, and ‘KakaoTalk impersonation detection’ and is provided differently depending on the version. Fishing Eyes works together with financial companies to prevent phishers' five major deceptive actions (malicious apps, remote control apps, text messages, KakaoTalk, calls) and five major extortion channels (APP, WEB, ARS, ATM, and counters).
We recommend that customers who want comprehensive voice phishing prevention install the Fishing Eyes app. Customers who have installed Fishing Eyes do not need to install the Citizen Conan app separately.
[Citizen Conan main features]
* Detects in real time phone interception apps used for various voice phishing, apps impersonating financial institutions, apps impersonating public institutions such as the police/prosecution, impersonating medical apps, impersonating courier/shopping apps, and malicious body cam apps.
* Detection and deletion function of uninstalled malicious files (.apk / .zip) in addition to installed malicious apps
* Linkage with affiliated financial companies
As soon as a malicious voice phishing app is detected, we jointly respond with affiliates that the user has agreed to and block financial transactions such as transfers and loans.
[App access permission information]
* Based on the Information and Communications Network Act for the protection of users related to smartphone app access rights, which came into effect on March 23, 2017, Citizen Conan accesses only the items absolutely necessary for the service, and the details are as follows.
1. Required access rights
- Storage space: Provides the ability to scan and delete uninstalled malicious apps
- Phone: Collect the terminal's mobile phone number to the Citizen Konan server (citizenkonan.com). The collected information is used to prevent financial damage at the source by cooperating with financial institutions.
* For operating systems lower than Android 6.0, individual consent to access rights is not possible.
Therefore, we recommend updating the operating system to Android 6.0 or higher using the device's software update function.