The malware apps have been detailed by cybersecurity researchers at Check Point, who say they were downloaded from Google's official app marketplace by over 15,000 users who were looking to.
Google has removed a series of apps downloaded by over a million Android users from the Google Play Store that infected smartphones with malware and bombarded devices with malicious pop-up.
Update August 1: There's a new report of auto-starting Android malware infecting millions of devices. And we have a list of more apps you'll want to delete. Another batch of malicious apps filled .
Recently, 56 Android apps with malware were discovered on Google Play. Together, these apps were downloaded more than one million times. As Google slowly but surely looks to keep a closer eye.
Android phone users have been urged to delete apps that have been affected by invasive malware with thousands of people believed to be at risk. SharkBot is a banking trojan which was.
The four apps in question have very generic names, including Smart SMS Messages which was downloaded more than 50,000 times. Others on the ban list are Blood Pressure Monitor, Voice Languages.
Unfortunately, for the near 200,000 Android users that have taken the plunge, a new report claims the only thing that’s certain in their future is malware and a plague of fraudulent ads.
.Analysts with cybersecurity vendor ThreatFabric found the platform, named "Zombinder," on the darknet while investigating a campaign that targeted both Android and Windows users with different.