New Android Warning: 40 Million Users Installed Video App Hiding Devious Malware—Delete Now

guest · Oct 18, 2019

New Android Warning: 40M Users Installed Video App Hiding Devious Malware—Delete Now
October 18, 2019
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...d-video-app-hiding-devious-malwaredelete-now/

Here we go again—another popular Android app caught defrauding users on a huge scale. This is familiar territory now, although the numbers get bigger and more onerous.

The app this time is SnapTube, a video downloader that lets users select YouTube and Facebook videos to play offline. The app’s developers claim more than 40 million users, and it has been installed many more times that that. The problem, it seems, is that while users are enjoying those videos, the app’s software is busy doing other things in the background—essentially defrauding both users and advertisers to generate material financial returns.

The disclosure against SnapTube has been made by researchers at Upstream, who say that their Secure-D platform detected and blocked “more than 70 million suspicious mobile transaction requests” from SnapTube installs on 4.4 million devices.”

The team at Sophos disclosed fraudulent installs, ads and clicks in a report published in February. “When running SnapTube,” Sophos explained, “it generated more than 200 network connections in fewer than 120 seconds, with no user interaction whatsoever. The network traffic shows the app downloads additional ad plugins, sends device info and personal info to remote websites, and generates sneaky redirects.”
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Upstream: Secure-D uncovers non-human clicks and subscriptions from popular Android app Snaptube

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