The trojan horse that has infiltrated thousands of Android devices and threatened users has resurfaced. in Google Play Store spread over different applications joker trojan horse danger has begun to threaten Android devices.
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It was last disclosed by Kaspersky in February. Joker trojan on Google Play Storecame up again. Billing and SMS fraud The virus, which attacks Android devices over the Internet, can also perform malicious actions such as stealing messages, contacts and device information.
Style Message, Blood Pressure and Camera PDF Scanner Three applications named Joker were previously removed from Google Play against the danger. However, it is still available in third-party app stores.
Trojan horse applications, as you can understand from their names, has been developed to appeal to every user. Messaging, health tracking, and asking permission to access messages and notifications once installed PDF scanner apps stands out as.
The Joker trojan has been known to copy your personal information, from banking to social media accounts. The danger especially targeting Android users; It also reads your messages to access verification codes requested by banking apps.
Google’s actually very tight security precautions even though, malicious hackers manages to beat the company’s algorithm. One of the most commonly used methods is to “sleep” a code package in the application and “wake it up” after checking.
Kaspersky researcher Igor Golovin said, “We are witnessing that scammers download an app from Google Play, add malicious codes to them and reinstall them back to Google Play under a different name.”
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