Forbes reported today that another warning has been issued to Android users after researchers at ESET discovered a year-long campaign that saw 8 million installs of adware delivered through 42 apps.
Half of those apps had already been removed by Google at the time ESET reported them. All the apps have since been removed by Google, however they are still available in third party stores, Lukas Stefanko, ESET malware researcher, said.
Experts Comments
October 25, 2019
One challenge that any playstore/appstore finds when validating apps for malware is that static analysis techniques and automation may not detect logical functions in code which give rise to data exfiltration.
The use of automation to detect malware is used for scalability reasons, but this method is signature-based, which is efficient in finding malicious code but less so in the discovery of logical functions or logic bombs. This is a real challenge, especially large vendors, faced with.....Read More
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