Half a million Android users tricked into downloading malware from Google Play

guest · Nov 20, 2018

Half a million Android users tricked into downloading malware from Google Play
November 20, 2018
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/20/h...ed-into-downloading-malware-from-google-play/

More than half a million users have installed Android malware posing as driving games — from Google’s own app store.

Lukas Stefanko, a security researcher at ESET, tweeted details of 13 gaming apps — made by the same developer — which were at the time of his tweet downloadable from Google Play. Two of the apps were trending on the store, he said, giving the apps greater visibility.

In reality, the app was downloading a payload from another domain — registered to an app developer in Istanbul — and installed malware behind the scenes, deleting the app’s icon in the process.

But the company continues to battle rogue and malicious apps in the Google Play app store, which have taken over as one of the greatest threats to Android user security.
And yet — clearly — that isn’t enough.
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