New malware Android on the Google Play Store

Researchers of discovered dozens of Android apps infected with on of Google.

Researchers report that applications were infected with the malicious Android / Clicker.G that seems to be targeting only Russian-speaking users.android malware

Most of these applications had more than 5.000 downloads, some of them gained very good reviews.

Μόλις αυτές οι εφαρμογές εισερχόταν σε συσκευές Android, η εταιρεία ασφαλείας αναφέρει ότι το κακόβουλο λογισμικό περίμενε μέχρι και έξι ώρες πριν από την κάποιας κακόβουλης συμπεριφοράς.

 

McAfee classifies it Android / Clicker.G like adware, and researchers report that every two minutes, the malware displays a pop-up with annoying ads or asks users to download a system update or other applications from 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.

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