Nio appar i den officiella butiken för appar för Android, Google Play, har visat sig vara trojaner och de 5.8 miljoner nedladdningarna innebär att ett mycket stort antal användare kan ha blivit av med kontouppgifter, lösenord och annan känslig information.
Det handlar om sammanlagt nio appar som funnits i Google subtil ett längre tag. Apparna har laddats ned 5.8 miljoner gånger vilket betyder att om det vill sig illa så har närmare 6 miljoner Android-användare blivit av med viktig personlig konfirmationsläger. Upptäckten gjordes av Dr Web:
- a photo-editing software called Processing Photo. It is detected by Dr.Web Anti-Virus as Android.PWS.Facebook.13 and was spread by the developer chikumburahamilton. It was installed over 500,000 times.
- applications that enabled access limitations for using other software installed on Android devices: App Lock Keep from the developer Sheralaw Rence, App Lock Manager from the developer Implummet col, and Lockit Master from the developer Enali mchicolo―all detected as Android.PWS.Facebook.13. They were downloaded at least 50,000, 10 and 5,000 times respectively.
- Rubbish Cleaner from the developer SNT.rbcl―a utility to optimize the Android device performance. It was downloaded over 100,000 times. Dr.Web detects it as Android.PWS.Facebook.13.
- astrology programs Horoscope Daily from the developer HscopeDaily momo and Horoscope Pi from the developer Talleyr Shauna, also detected as Android.PWS.Facebook.13. The former had more than 100,000 installs while the latter―more than 1,000 installs.
- a fitness program called Inwell Fitness, and detected as Android.PWS.Facebook.14 from the developer Reuben Germaine. It has more than 100,000 installs.
- an image editing app called PIP Photo that was spread by the developer Lillians. Its various versions are detected as Android.PWS.Facebook.17 and Android.PWS.Facebook.18. This app has over 5,000,000 downloads.
Enligt analysen så har apparna stulit inloggningsuppgifter till Facebook. Google uppges nu ha plockat bort de nio aktuella apparna från sin butik.
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