The behavior of malware varies, from stealing personal data to being able to steal credit. Here is the Android iPhone malware to watch out for because it can steal credit.
The first is the Autolycos malware which was discovered by Maxime Ingrao, a security researcher from Evina. He found this malware residing in eight Android applications on the Play Store.
Although the apps have now been removed by Google, previously these apps had been downloaded more than three million times. So the victims of the malware are actually very many.
Two apps, Vlog Star Video Editor and Creative 3D Launcher, have even been downloaded more than a million times. The following is a complete list of the eight latest malicious applications that carry the Autolycos malware, as quoted from Bleeping Computer, Thursday (14/7/2022).
Vlog Star Video Editor - 1,000,000 downloads
Creative 3D Launcher - 1,000,000 downloads
Funny Camera - 500,000 downloads
Wow Beauty Camera - 100,000 downloads
Gif Emoji Keyboard - 100,000 downloads
Razer Keyboard & Themes - 50.000 downloads
Freeglow Camera 1.0.0 - 5,000 downloads
Coco Camera v1.1 - 1,000 downloads
Autolycos itself is a malware that can perform malicious actions silently, such as accessing URLs in remote browsers and entering the results in HTTP requests instead of using Webview.
In many cases, this malware-infected app can request permission to access the user's SMS content. In the end, this malware will register users to premium subscription services and suck up the user's credit or make the bill swell.
Apple may boast about the security of the iOS ecosystem. However, it turns out that there are 133 fraudulent applications in the App Store, with a total of 500 million downloads and a total revenue of USD 365 million. This includes credit-stealing applications.
In March 2021, Avast reported 133 fraudulent apps in the App Store, and a year later VPNCheck found more than 60% of those apps were still active on the App Store.
A recent VPNCheck report found that there were 84 fraudulent iOS apps that not only survived in the App Store but also managed to steal more than $100 million from their victims.
VPNCheck uses the list shared by Avast to be rechecked one by one using Sensor Tower data. They found that in the period of June 2022 alone dozens of fraudulent applications had been downloaded 7.2 million times.
Most of the fraudulent iOS apps on the VPNCheck list are entertainment apps, photo or video editors, games, scanners, utilities like flashlight and VPN, and more.
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