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.

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.

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
      13·
      5 months ago

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

      • topperharlie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        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…