Google pulls malware-infected apps in its Store, over 3 million users at risk
Wow Beauty Camera — 100,000 downloadsCoco Camera v1.1 — 1,000 downloadsJoker, Facestealer and Coper resurface
Meanwhile, Zscaler's threat hunters this week said Google removed an additional 52 malware-infested apps on the Play Store, and 50 of them were used to deploy Joker, which has been an ongoing problem for Android devices. They also discovered Facestealer and Coper malware in two other malicious apps, and those have been booted from the online marketplace as well.
The Joker-spreading apps were downloaded more than 300,000 times, according to security researchers Viral Gandhi and Himanshu Sharma, who provided a technical analysis of the three malware family payloads and listed all 50 Joker downloaders on a ThreatLabZ blog post. "Despite public awareness of this particular malware, it keeps finding its way into Google's official app store by regularly modifying the malware's trace signatures including updates to the code, execution methods, and payload-retrieving techniques," Gandhi and SharmaOnce downloaded, Joker malware steals SMS messages, contact lists, and device information and also unknowingly signs the victim up for premium services.
"Most commonly, threat actors disguise the Joker malware in messaging applications that require users to grant escalated access permissions by allowing them to serve as the default SMS app on the user's phone," the threat hunters noted."The malware uses these advanced permissions to carry out its operations."
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