It’s 2019 and Google still can’t keep malware out of its Android app store

It’s 2019 and Google still can’t keep malware out of its Android app store
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2019-7-16 14:40

Google appears to have a problem with stopping malicious apps from sneaking into the Play Store. In what appears to yet another case of malware disguised as a legitimate app, security researchers from Symantec have found a new app that advertised itself as an unofficial version of Telegram messaging app — only to push malicious websites in the background.

Named MobonoGram 2019, the app used open-source code of the legitimate Telegram app, but was injected with malware before it was published on the Google Play Store. The malicious code on the infected device was used to spread “Android. Fakeyouwon” malware, and loaded…

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