McAfee security researchers discovered dozens applications of Android infected with malware in the Google Play Store.
The researchers αναφέρουν ότι οι εφαρμογές μολύνθηκαν με το κακόβουλο Αndroid/Clicker.G που φαίνεται να στοχεύει μόνο Ρωσόφωνους users.
Most of these applications had more than 5.000 downloads, some of them gained very good reviews.
As soon as these apps came into Android devices, the security company reported that malicious software was waiting for up to six hours before some malicious behavior was triggered.
McAfee classifies it Android / Clicker.G like adware and researchers report that every two minutes, the malware displays an annoying pop-up window advertisements ή ζητάει από τους χρήστες να κατεβάσουν μια ενημέρωση του συστήματος ή άλλες εφαρμογές από την υπηρεσία Update-SYS-android[.]Com.
The scammers behind this malware did not bother to meet their intentions because security researchers who controlled the source code from these applications report that the malicious payload was not encrypted to protect it from prying eyes.
All apps appear to have been uploaded to the Google Play Store recently, and some have been submitted by a user named goasez.
McAfee did not say how the scammers managed to circumvent the app review process by Google and the Bouncer scanner, but the company immediately reported all the apps it found infected with Android / Clicker.G.
So at the moment goasez's profile on Play Store does not contain apps, which means Google has removed them.
