Beware! Joker Playing Tricks On Play Store
Hackers often use every cloaking and obfuscation technique under the sun to host fraudulent and potentially malicious apps on the Google Play Store in an attempt to steal from users or generate illicit revenue. The latest discovery of infected applications on Google Play Store shows the store's struggle to prevent malicious activities on its platform. Latest discoveries Researchers with Pradeo found six apps infected with a malicious trojan named Joker malware (a.k.a. Bread). The claimed functionalities of the infected apps ranged from text messaging to emoji wallpaper. Together, the apps accounted for nearly 200,000 installs. During the initial upload to Google Play Store, the apps function as a genuine app. After being published in the store, the embedded Joker malware conducts billing fraud by either sending SMS texts to premium rate numbers or exploiting the compromised account to make multiple transactions using WAP billing. The malicious apps are Convenient Scan...
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