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Downloaded any of these apps from the Google Play Store onto your android device?

Vlog Star Video Editor — 1 million downloads
Creative 3D Launcher — 1 million downloads
Wow Beauty Camera — 100,000 downloads
Gif Emoji Keyboard — 100,000 downloads
Freeglow Camera — 5,000 downloads
Coco Camera v1.1 — 1,000 downloads
Funny Camera — 500,000 downloads
Razer Keyboard & Theme — 50,000 downloads

Time for a purge and security check…

Google pulled 60 malware-infected apps from its Play Store, installed by more than 3.3 million punters, that can be used for all kinds of criminal activities including credential theft, spying and even stealing money from victims…

Ref:the Register

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And that’s why I’ll never use a smartphone for anything important or sensitive!

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Joker, Facestealer and Coper banking malwares on Google Play store

Joker Malware

Joker is one of the most prominent malware families targeting Android devices. 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. This malware is designed to steal SMS messages, contact lists, and device information, and to sign the victim up for premium wireless application protocol (WAP) services. Over the past two months, our ThreatLabz researchers discovered the following malicious Joker downloader apps in the Google Play Store:..

List of malware apps :

Simple Note Scanner – com.wuwan.pdfscan
Universal PDF Scanner – com.unpdf.scan.read.docscanuniver
Private Messenger – com.recollect.linkus
Premium SMS – com.premium.put.trustsms
Smart Messages – com.toukyoursms.timemessages
Text Emoji SMS – messenger.itext.emoji.mesenger
Blood Pressure Checker – com.bloodpressurechecker.tangjiang
Funny Keyboard – com.soundly.galaxykeyboard
Memory Silent Camera – com.silentmenory.timcamer
Custom Themed Keyboard – com.custom.keyboardthemes.galaxiy
Light Messages – com.lilysmspro.lighting
Themes Photo Keyboard – com.themes.bgphotokeyboard
Send SMS – exazth.message.send.text.sms
Themes Chat Messenger – com.relish.messengers
Instant Messenger – com.sbdlsms.crazymessager.mmsrec
Cool Keyboard – com.colate.gthemekeyboard
Fonts Emoji Keyboard – com.zemoji.fontskeyboard
Mini PDF Scanner – com.mnscan.minipdf
Smart SMS Messages – com.sms.mms.message.ffei.free
Creative Emoji Keyboard – com.whiteemojis.creativekeyboard.ledsloard
Fancy SMS – con.sms.fancy
Fonts Emoji Keyboard – com.symbol.fonts.emojikeyboards
Personal Message – com.crown.personalmessage
Funny Emoji Message – com.funie.messagremo
Magic Photo Editor – com.amagiczy.photo.editor
Professional Messages – com.adore.attached.message
All Photo Translator – myphotocom.allfasttranslate.transationtranslator
Chat SMS – com.maskteslary.messages
Smile Emoji – com.balapp.smilewall.emoji
Wow Translator – com.imgtop.camtranslator
All Language Translate – com.exclusivez.alltranslate
Cool Messages – com.learningz.app.cool.messages
Blood Pressure Diary – bloodhold.nypressure.mainheart.ratemy.mo.depulse.app.tracker.diary
Chat Text SMS – com.echatsms.messageos
Hi Text SMS – ismos.mmsyes.message.texthitext.bobpsms
Emoji Theme Keyboard – com.gobacktheme.lovelyemojikeyboard
iMessager – start.me.messager
Text SMS – com.ptx.textsms
Camera Translator – com.haixgoback.outsidetext.languagecameratransla
Come Messages – com.itextsms.messagecoming
Painting Photo Editor – com.painting.pointeditor.photo
Rich Theme Message – com.getmanytimes.richsmsthememessenge
Quick Talk Message – mesages.qtsms.messenger
Advanced SMS – com.fromamsms.atadvancedmmsopp
Professional Messenger – com.akl.smspro.messenger
Classic Game Messenger – com.classcolor.formessenger.sic
Style Message – com.istyle.messagesty
Private Game Messages – com.message.game.india
Timestamp Camera – allready.taken.photobeauty.camera.timestamp
Social Message – com.colorsocial.message..

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Umm @Alex5723 , where did you get the above quoted info from??

In your many varied other posts throughout the site here, you’ve usually included a link to the quoted article in your posts, but this time you forgot to include it.

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Yet another google play app..
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-android-malware-apps-installed-10-million-times-from-google-play/

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Bob99 wrote:

but this time you forgot to include it.

Sorry.

https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/security-research/joker-facestealer-and-coper-banking-malwares-google-play-store

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