Android Malware: Joker Still Fools Google's Defense, New Clicker Found

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Joker malware that subscribes Android users to premium services without consent is giving Google a hard time as new samples constantly bypass scrutiny and end up in Play Store.
The malware is under constant development and new samples found in the official Android repository seem to be created specifically to avoid Google's detection mechanisms.

Also known as Bread, the malware is a spyware and premium dialer that can access notifications, read and send SMS texts. These capabilities are used to invisibly subscribe victims to premium services.

Joker avoids US and Canada

Researchers at Check Point discovered four new samples in Play Store recently, in apps with a cumulative installation count higher than 130,000. The malware was hidden in camera, wallpaper, SMS, and photo editing software:
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[upnorth]

New Joker samples emerge almost every day in Google's Play Store, says Aviran Hazum, mobile security researcher at Check Point.

Tatyana Shishkova, Android malware analyst at Kaspersky, has been tweeting about apps with Joker code since October, 2019. She listed over 70 compromised apps that made it into Play Store, many having at least 5,000 installations and a few with more than 50,000. Almost all of them have been removed from the repository. At least, three totaling more than 21,000 installations, are still present, as Shishkova shows with a tweet today

Glad to see all those reported are now gone, but if new ones emerge every single day and thousands upon thousands sadly gets infected, Google apparently still has a long way to go.

 

[g4nu5]

thnx and really as like previous comment its Glad to see all those reported are now gone .