{"id":149379,"date":"2022-11-03T07:22:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T12:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/malicious-android-apps-with-1m-installs-found-on-google-play"},"modified":"2022-11-03T07:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T12:22:20","slug":"malicious-android-apps-with-1m-installs-found-on-google-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/malicious-android-apps-with-1m-installs-found-on-google-play","title":{"rendered":"Malicious Android apps with 1M+ installs found on Google Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/malicious-android-apps-with-1m-installs-found-on-google-play2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A set of four malicious applications currently available in Google Play, the official store for the Android system, are directing users sites that steal sensitive information or generate \u2018pay-per-click\u2019 revenue for the operators.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these sites offer victims to download fake security tools or updates, to trick users into installing the malicious files manually.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of publishing, the apps are still present on Google Play under a developer account called <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/dev?id=5631376253411320738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mobile apps Group<\/a>, and have a total install count of more than one million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A set of four malicious applications currently available in Google Play, the official store for the Android system, are directing users sites that steal sensitive information or generate \u2018pay-per-click\u2019 revenue for the operators. Some of these sites offer victims to download fake security tools or updates, to trick users into installing the malicious files manually. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149379","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}