Google Play Yanks Android Apps Carrying Windows Malware !!

in #google6 years ago

According to the Palo Alto Network, the app recently removed a total of 45 different Android applications from the company's play store, when it was found that the app was taking malicious Windows.exe (executable) files. A group of researchers of Palo Alto disclosed that most applications were essentially uploaded to Google Play Play in October and November last year, and they were remained in the Play Store for more than six months. After the alert about the malicious apps, Google immediately action and removed them all.

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Although the apps, the application made no danger to users who had actually downloaded and installed on their Android device, the malicious code contained in the Android Package Kit (APK) has evidence of those risks which can generate the supply chain attacks. The developers of these apps were essentially made them on those Windows systems that were included in some of the impact apps already had more than 1000 downloads and they were able to recognize Google, and they were finally removed.

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Some affected apps have already downloaded more than 1000 and Google has received 4-star rating before being able to recognize. Even at APK APE has many failure PE files with different places and different times with different names. Still, many malicious files have been found. These malicious files were successfully infected in 142 APKs, and the second files are present in PE files, as well as both other APKs. Other Malicious PE files also security is also said that a malicious PE file contains many that such as passwords, social security numbers, and credit / debit and other payment card data. To use the coded, either legitimate, as if legitimate looks like, as if my name. XE, android.exe, cassy_exe, copy_dokeep.exeexexex, and assem, coty_exee, cs__exke.exe, cassy_exe.exee, cs__exke.exe, cassy_exe.exeee, checks.

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