8 Malware-Infested Apps Android Smartphone Users Must Delete Right Now

A French safety researcher has warned customers of Android smartphones towards sure purposes, which he stated comprise a “new family of malware”. There are eight such apps, researchers Maxime Ingrao stated on Twitter, which he has tracked since June final 12 months. He added that these purposes have been downloaded greater than three million occasions (Google Play downloads included), he added. The malware has been recognized by Mr Ingrao as Autolycos and he additionally defined the way it infects the telephone in a Twitter thread.

Found new household of malware that subscribe to premium companies 👀

8 purposes since June 2021, 2 apps at all times in Play Store, +3M installs 💀💀

No webview like #Joker however solely http requests

Let’s name it #Autolycos 👾#Android #Malware #Evina pic.twitter.com/SgTfrAOn6H

— Maxime Ingrao (@IngraoMaxime) July 13, 2022

The researcher stated that the malicious purposes are broadly promoted by way of social media and reaches customers by campaigns. Users are enticed to obtain these apps with pictures of cool keyboard themes, nice-looking launcher apps and digicam purposes.

Google has deleted these purposes from the Play Store, however their APK variations are nonetheless out there on-line. “It retrieves a JSON on the C2 address: 68.183.219.190/pER/y. It then executes the urls, for some steps it executes the urls on a remote browser and returns the result to include it in the requests. This allows it not to have a Webview and to be more discrete,” Mr Ingrao stated in one among his tweets.

“To promote the applications, fraudsters create several Facebook pages and run ads on Facebook and Instagram,” he stated in a subsequent tweet.

The safety researcher additionally posted the screenshot of those cell purposes in order that it turns into simple for Android customers to delete them from their telephones.

The eight harmful apps are:

1. Vlog Star Video Editor (com.vlog.star.video.editor, 1 million downloads)
2. Creative 3D Launcher (app.launcher.creative3d, 1 million downloads)
3. Funny Camera (com.okcamera.humorous, 500,000+ downloads)
4. Wow Beauty Camera (com.wowbeauty.digicam, 100,000 downloads)
5. Gif Emoji Keyboard (com.gif.emoji.keyboard, 100,000 downloads)
6. Razer Keyboard & Theme (com.razer.keyboards, 10,000 downloads, not associated to the gaming/tech firm Razer)
7. Freeglow Camera 1.0.0 (com.glow.digicam.open, 5,000 downloads)
8. Coco Camera v1.1 (com.toomore.cool.digicam, 1,000 downloads)

If none of those purposes are in your telephone, think about your self fortunate.