Here are some of the apps that Bitdefender found to be infected with SharkBot: Simply put, it is incredibly easy for hackers to target American users and steal their online account passwords, banking credentials and other personal information stored on their Android phones. However, the payload delivered still has banks from Italy, the U.K., Germany, Spain, Poland, Austria, U.S. This instance of SharkBot targets Italian users. If it is, it launches a fake Google Play Store page impersonating the app page, including inflated reviews and downloads. In the case of the Italian malware package, it checks whether the phone is in Italy. Malicious apps found in Google Play Store However, it can expand globally whenever the bad actors choose. This scheme was spotted targeting people in Italy. You see, the apps are clean when you download them, so the malicious activity isn’t detected.īut once the app is on your device and you permit it to install external packages, it will infect your gadget with malware.
It helps bypass Google’s security checks in the Play Store. One such app is a file manager application that requests permission to install external packages, a standard request for this type of app.īitdefender explained that permission is then used to infect your device with malware. Several apps hiding SharkBot have been spotted in the Google Play Store and have been downloaded more than 130,000 times.
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