A new malware (or adware) has been found in some popular Android Apps that are available for download from the Google Play, reported Avast, the antivirus company. The apps include Durak card game, an IQ test and Russian History app, all of which saw millions of downloads.
However, Google responded promptly to the add by suspending the apps and its listing pulled down from Google Play.
Apparently, the ads appear as warning messages in these apps as and when users unlock their Android smartphones. The issue was first noticed and reported by a user on Avast Forum.
According to Avast, the malicious apps doesn’t get activated until it has been restarted. Once the device is restarted, users will start receiving messages like “ Your device is infected, out of date or full of porn and so forth.”
According to Avast’s Filip Chytry, some apps may take 30 days to show what’s there within them. So by that time it’s difficult to guess which app is really creating trouble on their phone. The pop up message displayed each time a user unlocks the device are hoax messages, meant to redirect the user to harmful threats on fake pages.
So before downloading the apps, users should read reviews thoroughly and choose apps that are developed by trusted developers.
Mobile Malware is common in Android phones. In the past, reports have pointed out that 99 of every 100 mobile devices that fall prey to mobile malware are Android devices. Last year, a top paid app on Google Play store was found to be fake.
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