All that while, victims never know what is happening on their devices.īad actors can use the information to blackmail a person or a corporate company for ransom. They can read text messages and steal contact lists, personal photos, financial details, or trade secrets and send them to hackers in remote locations. Once installed on the phone, they are capable of tracking apps such as the default Messages app on the phone. Joker malware-based apps are notorious for spying on victims. She has been sharing the links of the apps on Twitter and most of them have been taken down from Play Store.
Tatyana Shishkova, Android Malware expert at Kaspersky has detected more than a dozen malicious Android apps with Joker trojan on Play Store. Despite the efforts put by Google to block malware-laced Android apps entering the Play Store, bad actors are still managing to slip through the security screening to prey on naive users.
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