All these apps must be removed — what to know.
Here we go again. A list of malicious apps has just been published and smartphone users are being urged to root out and delete any still on their devices. The latest report outs more than 350 apps responsible for more than a billion ad bid requests per day., which says it has “disrupted IconAds, a massive fraud operation involving hundreds of deceptive mobile apps that hide their presence and deliver unwanted ads.
Google has now deleted all of apps in the report fromPlay Store, and users with Play Protect enabled will be protected from those apps. But apps are not automatically deleted from devices, and so you should do this manually. In Satori’s technical report, it warns that such is the scale of this operation it deployed a dedicated domain for every malicious app, which helped the team compile their list.
“These domains consistently resolve to a specific CNAME and return a specific message; this means that while the domains were different, they very likely shared the same back-end infrastructure or second-level C2. These and other unique parameters allowed Satori researchers to find more of these domains and associate them back to IconAds.”The team also warns that the app obfuscation was highly deceptive. In one instance, an app “used a variation of the Google Play Store’s own icon and name.
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