Google pulls down 29 malicious Android apps downloaded many times
Google is repeatedly purging its play store from malicious apps, but somehow these scammy apps again find their way into the world.
Google is repeatedly purging its play Store from malicious apps, but somehow these Scammy apps again find their way into the world. In latest attempt, Google removed the total 29 such apps, and some of which had been already downloaded in millions times.
According to the a Trend Micro report, the various Google Play 'Beauty Camera' apps send the users pornographic contain and redirect them to phishing websites to collect their pictures. These apps are capable of accessing remote ad configuration servers for carrying out attacks.
interesting things is this malicious apps are a large number of the download counts originated from Asia, Particularly in India, because in India the young generation are search in google to ' how to improve beauty' like that sentences find it.
these malicious apps make it difficult for the user to delete them as they create a shortcut to the apps after being launched but hide its icon from the application list . The camera apps use packers that prevent them from being analysed.
One of the most common method these apps carry out phishing attacks is by pushing several full-screen ads as soon as users unlock their devices. As none of these apps gives any difficult for the users to identify and delete them.(ANI)
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