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Researchers find two Android malware campaigns with over 250 million downloads

Wednesday March 13, 2019. 03:15 PM , from BetaNews
Check Point Research has uncovered two massive mobile adware and data stealing campaigns, which have already had a combined total of over 250 million downloads globally. Both target mobiles using Android, and exploit the mobile app development supply chain to infect devices and perform malicious actions. The first is SimBad, a mobile adware campaign that has already had 147 million downloads across 210 infected apps on the Google Play Store. Called 'SimBad' because most of the infected apps are simulator games, the worldwide campaign makes phone usage unbearable for users by displaying countless ads outside of the app, with no… [Continue Reading]
https://betanews.com/2019/03/13/android-malware-millions/
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