Google Play Rampant with Porn Clicker Trojan
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 02/26/2016 05:26 AM
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Over the last seven months, ESET researchers have discovered nearly 350 porn clicker Trojans on Google Play.
In what researchers are calling a “large-scale campaign”, the malicious apps are systematically modified to sneak past even advanced detection methods.
The malware is primarily nuisance-ware in that it just runs in the background and seems to only lay in excessive data consumption, potentially resulting in increasing bills for mobile services or exceeding the data cap.
Google’s security team takes the apps off the store frequently, but the malware’s authors keep pace and successfully upload new apps to the store on a regular basis.
More than 300 malicious apps have made it into the Google Play store and have been downloaded at least a million times.
ESET researcher Lukáš Štefanko said: "Users should take the same security measures for their mobile devices that they have implemented on their computers—I mean using a quality security solution and having a backup of all their important data. On top of that, they should be reasonably paranoid when considering which apps to use and from where to install them.”
Source: InfoSecurity
In what researchers are calling a “large-scale campaign”, the malicious apps are systematically modified to sneak past even advanced detection methods.The malware is primarily nuisance-ware in that it just runs in the background and seems to only lay in excessive data consumption, potentially resulting in increasing bills for mobile services or exceeding the data cap.
Google’s security team takes the apps off the store frequently, but the malware’s authors keep pace and successfully upload new apps to the store on a regular basis.
More than 300 malicious apps have made it into the Google Play store and have been downloaded at least a million times.
ESET researcher Lukáš Štefanko said: "Users should take the same security measures for their mobile devices that they have implemented on their computers—I mean using a quality security solution and having a backup of all their important data. On top of that, they should be reasonably paranoid when considering which apps to use and from where to install them.”
Source: InfoSecurity
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