A new Android malware family named Viking Horde found on the Google Play Store allows attackers to commit click-fraud, SMS fraud, send spam messages, or even launch DDoS attacks from infected devices.
Discovered by security experts from Check Point, Viking Horde was found in five apps uploaded to the Play Store, named Viking Jump, Parrot Copter, WiFi Plus, Memory Booster, and Simple 2048.
Google has removed these apps in the meantime, but Check Point researchers are claiming that the same methods used to upload these malicious apps past Google's app review process may be used again in the future to upload new apps.
Malware uses an anonymous proxy to carry out communications.
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Full Article: Highly Dangerous Trojan Found in Apps on the Google Play Store
Discovered by security experts from Check Point, Viking Horde was found in five apps uploaded to the Play Store, named Viking Jump, Parrot Copter, WiFi Plus, Memory Booster, and Simple 2048.
Google has removed these apps in the meantime, but Check Point researchers are claiming that the same methods used to upload these malicious apps past Google's app review process may be used again in the future to upload new apps.
Malware uses an anonymous proxy to carry out communications.
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Full Article: Highly Dangerous Trojan Found in Apps on the Google Play Store
