Android: These apps hide dangerous malware, remove them now!

After the dreaded banking malware Revive or BRATA, one of the most dangerous malware in the world, Android users face new malware again, this time hiding in various apps of Google Play Store. The malware, named “Autolycos”, was recently discovered by Maxime Ingrao, a security researcher at Evina.

Researcher for now Detected in at least 8 apps available in Play Storewho died downloaded nearly 3 million times in total. Many of these malicious apps have since been removed, but two are still available for download from the Google Store.

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Autolycos’ specialty is to force users to subscribe to premium services. It is precisely against this application that Microsoft recently warned users. According to him, this paid phishing malware is one of the most common threats to Google’s operating system. usually uses an infected device for connect to the payment pages of a paid serviceand It forces the user to subscribe to paid content and add the fee to the phone bill.

Two of the 8 apps hosting the Autolycos malware are still available on the Play Store. we find especially Razer Keyboard and Theme from developer xcheldiololaand Funny Camera from KellyTech. Both have been downloaded a total of 550,000 times. Other malicious apps include:

• Vlog Star Video Editor (com.vlog.star.video.editor) – 1 million downloads
• Creative 3D Launcher (app.launcher.creative3d) – 1 million downloads
• Wow Beauty Camera (com.wowbeauty.camera) – 100,000 downloads
• Gif Emoji Keyboard (com.gif.emoji.keyboard) – 100,000 downloads
• Freeglow Camera 1.0.0 (com.glow.camera.open) – 5,000 downloads
• Coco Camera v1.1 (com.toomore.cool.camera) – 1000 downloads

If you have one of the apps on your smartphone, We recommend that you remove it as soon as possible.. They would have already been reported to Google in June 2021, but it took more than 6 months for the American company to delete them.