Hundreds of Malicious Apps Posing as Virus Scanners Found in App Stores

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Late last month, folks at McAffee were warning Android users that there were multiple apps in the Play Store promising unnecessary protection against WannaCry. Now, it seems there's a flood of anti-virus solutions in the app store that are actually there to infect you, not save you.

First of all, because it seems like it needs to be said over and over again: WannaCry is not an infection that can reach Android devices, or any other type of devices outside of Windows PCs and laptops because it is essentially based on a Windows vulnerability.

With that part out of the way, RiskIQ, a cybersecurity firm, discovered seven apps related to WannaCry in the Google Play Store, and another couple of them in Apple's App Store. They all demanded entirely more permissions than the average app, including knowing your phone's wake password.

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[ravi prakash saini]

the problem is that who know what wannacry is do not require any special tool to secure themselves and who do not know will install any available tool to secure themselves and in the end will get infected.
another saying from my country "do not give a razor to monkey it will cut you and itself too"

 

[EASTER]

What you have to wonder if your an avid android user is when is google going to finally do something more proactive to keep things like this showing up on their play store servers.

Aren't they at all advanced enough by now (2017) to have the capacity or where with all to fashion some form of better auditing of apps before approval?