Malware News Google Play Apps Infected with Banking Trojans Found on 30K Devices

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If you ever thought Google has finally cleaned the Google Play store of banking Trojans you're in for a big surprise: 29 other infected Android apps have been found from August until early October 2018 in the official store.

As discovered by ESET's malware researcher Lukas Stefanko, the banking Trojans were camouflaged as a wide variety of Android apps, possibly for reaching a bigger audience, spanning multiple categories from horoscope and utility apps to system cleaners and boosters.

 

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Tavis Ormandy at Google Project Zero needs to get his bosses at Google to fix the Google Store.

 

[ChemicalB]

30K infected users. ... then it seems Play Protect had nothing to say about these malicious applications.