A French safety researcher Maxime Ingrao has warned Android customers of recent household of malware that subscribe to premium providers.
He stated {that a} malware named Autolycos has been discovered to be current in a minimum of eight Android apps which have seen greater than three million downloads.
The eight malware apps that have been contaminated included those which are a magnet for consumer consideration like digital camera editor, keyboard themes and video editors, he stated.
In a collection of tweets, he wrote, “Discovered new household of malware that subscribe to premium providers. 8 functions since June 2021, 2 apps at all times in Play Retailer, +3M installs. No webview like #Joker however solely http requests. Let’s name it #Autolycos”
As per reviews, it took Google six months to take away these 8 apps, nevertheless, however their APK variations are nonetheless accessible on-line.
“It retrieves a JSON on the C2 deal with: 68.183.219.190/pER/y It then executes the urls, for some steps it executes the urls on a distant browser and returns the end result to incorporate it within the requests This permits it to not have a Webview and to be extra discrete,” he additional wrote.
The researcher additionally added that these functions are broadly promoted on social media by way of advert campaigns on Fb and Instagram.
“To advertise the functions, fraudsters create a number of Fb pages and run adverts on Fb and Instagram. For instance, there have been 74 advert campaigns for Razer Keyboard & Theme malware,” he stated in one other tweet.
Right here is the record of eight malware apps listed by Maxime Ingrao:
1. Vlog Star Video Editor (com.vlog.star.video.editor, 1 million downloads)
2. Artistic 3D Launcher (app.launcher.creative3d, 1 million downloads)
3. Humorous Digital camera (com.okcamera.humorous, 500,000+ downloads)
4. Wow Magnificence Digital camera (com.wowbeauty.digital camera, 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 Digital camera 1.0.0 (com.glow.digital camera.open, 5,000 downloads)
8. Coco Digital camera v1.1 (com.toomore.cool.digital camera, 1,000 downloads)
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