{"id":126690,"date":"2021-08-24T12:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T19:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/the-joker-virus-has-returned-to-android-it-can-empty-your-bank-accounts-without-you-noticing-it-and-it-is-hidden-in-these-apps-in-the-google-play-store"},"modified":"2021-08-24T12:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T19:22:18","slug":"the-joker-virus-has-returned-to-android-it-can-empty-your-bank-accounts-without-you-noticing-it-and-it-is-hidden-in-these-apps-in-the-google-play-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/the-joker-virus-has-returned-to-android-it-can-empty-your-bank-accounts-without-you-noticing-it-and-it-is-hidden-in-these-apps-in-the-google-play-store","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Joker\u2019 Virus Has Returned to Android: It Can Empty Your Bank Accounts Without You Noticing It and It Is Hidden in These Apps in the Google Play Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-joker-virus-has-returned-to-android-it-can-empty-your-bank-accounts-without-you-noticing-it-and-it-is-hidden-in-these-apps-in-the-google-play-store2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Joker\u2019 virus hides in several apps on the Google Play Store and the user does not realize it until their bank accounts are emptied. See how this <i>malware<\/i> operates and what are the dangerous applications.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In September 2,020 the <b>\u2019Joker\u2019 virus<\/b> was found in <b>24 Android applications<\/b> that registered more than <b>500 thousand downloads<\/b> before being removed. It is estimated that that time it affected more than 30 countries including the United States, Brazil and Spain. Through unauthorized subscriptions, <b>hackers<\/b> could steal <b>up to $7<\/b> (about 140 Mexican pesos) per subscription weekly, a figure that has most likely increased in recent months.<\/p>\n<p><b><b>How does the Joker virus work in Android apps?<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The <b>\u2019Joker\u2019 Trojan virus<\/b> belongs to a family of <b><i>malware<\/i><\/b> known as <b>Bread<\/b> 0 whose objective is to <b>hack cell phone bills<\/b> and <b>authorize operations without<\/b> the user\u2019s consent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018Joker\u2019 virus hides in several apps on the Google Play Store and the user does not realize it until their bank accounts are emptied. See how this malware operates and what are the dangerous applications. In September 2,020 the \u2019Joker\u2019 virus was found in 24 Android applications that registered more than 500 thousand downloads [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}