New report prepared by computer security experts from Trendmicro it confirms that they have received at least one the newest popular Android apps They have malware inside.
Found in them malicious code which will allow attackers to gain remote access to devices, to perform data theft or fraudulent schemes, to fraudulently advertise or download and use applications with malw are, including those intended to register users. and services the premium
Among the uses mentioned, complete followed by nearly half a million since 2017, they are very represented "optimization" tools such as memory filters.
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According to TrendmicroWhen making one of the infected apps, the user did not know that his tool was being attacked, given that doing the "obvious" work That hides the content.
After that was started a service called "com.adsmwing.MainService" which was found in the "com.adsmifying" package was created, which had start communicating with the advertising server to register a new app installation on a victim's device. As such Trojan began to bombard the user with annoying advertising of all kinds.
The report specifies that Japan, Taiwan, the United States, India and Thailand are the highest number of users affected by this malware. However, since the apps were available on Google Play – today, already removed from the store by Google – they could be installed by people from all over the world. Next, we leave a complete list of infected apps
App name | Package name | Number of resources |
---|---|---|
Call the Clean-Junk Cleaner, Phone Booster, CPU Cooler | com.boost.cpu.shootcleaner | 10,000+ |
Super Clean Lite – Booster, Clean and CPU Cooler | com.boost.superclean.cpucool.lite | 50,000+ |
Super Clean-Telephone, Junk Cleaner and CPU Cooler spray | com.booster.supercleaner | 100,000+ |
Fastest H5 Sports Center | com.h5games.center.quickgames | 100,000+ |
Rocket Cleaner | com.party.rocketcleaner | 100,000+ |
Rocket Cleaner Lite | com.party.rocketcleaner.lite | 10,000+ |
Speed Clean-Phone Booster, Junk Cleaner & Application Manager | com.party.speedclean | 100,000+ |
LinkWorldVPN | com.linkworld.fast.free.vpn | 1,000+ |
H5 game box | com.games.h5gamebox | 1,000+ |
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