Malware News ESET: 87 Malicious Apps Disguised as Minecraft Mods Found on Google Play

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Researchers over at ESET have discovered 87 malicious apps disguised as mods for Minecraft on the official Google Play app store. Nearly 1 million users had installed them before Google pulled them from the store.

According to ESET's report, these 87 apps were pestering Android gamers with aggressive ads and scam activity. Researchers have divided the large number of apps into two categories - ad-displaying downloaders and fake apps redirecting users to scam websites.

For the first category, ESET found 14 fake apps impersonating Minecraft mods with up to 80,000 installs. They all have low ratings due to the aggressive ads they deliver to users so, normally, they should be easy to avoid by users.

The other category trying to scam users contains 73 apps. In total, they had about 910,000 installs since being uploaded to Google Play somewhere between January and March 2... (read more)

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[larry goes to church]

I guess the saving grace is that because they were so aggresive with their ads they got a low rating.


I think its funny that people get their malware installed and only use it for spam..