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Over 90 malicious Android apps with 5.5M installs found on Google Play (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 5 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.zip

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Over 90 malicious Android apps were found installed over 5.5 million times through Google Play to deliver malware and adware, with the Anatsa banking trojan seeing a recent surge in activity.

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[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

...so are they going to tell us what the 90+ apps are?

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The researchers did not disclose the names of the 90+ apps and whether they had been reported to Google for takedown.

[–] topperharlie@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

great policy from google and the researchers, now we can be paranoid about ALL the apps...

I have been trying to avoid installing apps for a while and use web when possible, I guess I wasn't overreacting... but man is it hard, as everyone and their mom want you to install their app, even if its a simple web wrapper most of the times...

[–] baggins@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago

Doesn't look like it.