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Adware Posing as 85 Photography and Gaming Apps on Google Play Installed Over 8 Million Times

  • Posted on:August 16, 2019 at 5:02 am
  • Posted in:Mobile
  • Author:
    Ecular Xu (Mobile Threat Response Engineer)
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The mobile platform is ubiquitous — enabling users to make online transactions, run their everyday lives, or even use it in the workplace. It’s no surprise that fraudsters and cybercriminals would want to cash in on it. Delivering adware, for example, enables them to monetize affected devices while attempting to be innocuous. And while they may be viewed as a nuisance at best, mobile ad fraud- and adware-related incidents became so rampant last year that it cost businesses hefty financial losses.

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Tags: adwaregoogle playmobile malware

Adware Campaign Identified From 182 Game and Camera Apps on Google Play and Third-Party Stores Like 9Apps

  • Posted on:July 1, 2019 at 5:00 am
  • Posted in:Mobile
  • Author:
    Trend Micro
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We recently observed an active adware campaign (detected by Trend Micro as AndroidOS_HiddenAd.HRXAA and AndroidOS_HiddenAd.GCLA) concealed in free-to-download 182 game and camera apps, majority of which were found on the Google Play Store and collectively had millions of downloads.

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Tags: adwaregoogle playmobile apps

Windows App Runs on Mac, Downloads Info Stealer and Adware

  • Posted on:February 11, 2019 at 5:07 am
  • Posted in:Mac, Malware
  • Author:
    Trend Micro
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We found an EXE application that specifically runs on Mac to download an adware and info stealer, sidestepping built-in protection systems on the platform such as Gatekeeper. We suspect the cybercriminals developing this routine as an evasion technique for damaging infections and attacks in the future as our telemetry showed the highest numbers to be in the UK, Australia, Armenia, Luxembourg, South Africa and the US.

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Tags: adwareappEXEGatekeeperinfo stealerWindows

Adware Disguised as Game, TV, Remote Control Apps Infect 9 Million Google Play Users

  • Posted on:January 8, 2019 at 4:50 am
  • Posted in:Malware, Mobile
  • Author:
    Trend Micro
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We recently discovered an active adware family (detected by Trend Micro as AndroidOS_HidenAd) disguised as 85 game, TV, and remote control simulator apps on the Google Play store. This adware is capable of displaying full-screen ads, hiding itself, monitoring a device’s screen unlocking functionality, and running in the mobile device’s background. The 85 fake apps have been downloaded a total of 9 million times around the world.

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Tags: adwaregoogle play

GhostTeam Adware can Steal Facebook Credentials

  • Posted on:January 18, 2018 at 12:03 am
  • Posted in:Malware, Mobile, Social
  • Author:
    Mobile Threat Response Team
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We uncovered a total of 53 apps on Google Play that can steal Facebook accounts and surreptitiously push ads. Many of these apps, which were published as early as April 2017, seemed to have been put out on Google Play in a wave. Detected by Trend Micro as ANDROIDOS_GHOSTTEAM, many of the samples we analyzed are in Vietnamese, including their descriptions on Google Play.

Their command-and-control (C&C) server points to mspace[.]com[.]vn. This, along with the considerable use of Vietnamese language, may indicate that the apps were from Vietnam. For instance, GhostTeam’s configurations are in English and Vietnamese. English will be the default language if the malware detects the geolocation to be outside Vietnam.

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Tags: adwareFacebookGhostTeam
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