{"id":93399,"date":"2019-07-10T08:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T15:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/25-million-android-devices-infected"},"modified":"2019-07-10T08:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T15:22:27","slug":"25-million-android-devices-infected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/25-million-android-devices-infected","title":{"rendered":"25 Million Android Devices Infected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/25-million-android-devices-infected3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Malware researchers discovered a new malicious campaign for Android devices that replaces legitimate apps with tainted copies built to push advertisements or hijack valid ad events.<\/p>\n<p>Around 25 million devices have already been infected with what researchers have dubbed \u201cAgent Smith,\u201d after users installed an app from an unofficial Android store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malware researchers discovered a new malicious campaign for Android devices that replaces legitimate apps with tainted copies built to push advertisements or hijack valid ad events. Around 25 million devices have already been infected with what researchers have dubbed \u201cAgent Smith,\u201d after users installed an app from an unofficial Android store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93399","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=93399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}