{"id":94689,"date":"2019-08-12T20:02:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T03:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/pre-installed-apps-in-7-million-android-devices-found-containing-malware"},"modified":"2019-08-12T20:02:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T03:02:46","slug":"pre-installed-apps-in-7-million-android-devices-found-containing-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/pre-installed-apps-in-7-million-android-devices-found-containing-malware","title":{"rendered":"Pre-installed apps in 7 million Android devices found containing malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pre-installed-apps-in-7-million-android-devices-found-containing-malware2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Security researchers from Google\u2019s Project Zero team recently uncovered pre-installed apps in Android devices that either allowed remote attackers to carry out remote code execution, could disable Google Play Protect in devices, or could collect information on users\u2019 web activities.<\/p>\n<p>At the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, Maddie Stone, a security researcher on Project Zero and who previously served as Senior Reverse Engineer &amp; Tech Lead on Android Security team, revealed that her team discovered three instances of Android malware being <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/maddiestone\/ConPresentations\/blob\/master\/Blackhat2019.SecuringTheSystem.pdf\">pre-installed in budget Android phones<\/a> in the recent past.<\/p>\n<p>One such pre-installed app was capable of turning off Google Play Protect, the default mobile security app in Android devices, thereby leaving devices vulnerable to all forms of cyber attacks or remote surveillance. The Project Zero team also found an app pre-installed on Android phones that gathered logs of users\u2019 web activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security researchers from Google\u2019s Project Zero team recently uncovered pre-installed apps in Android devices that either allowed remote attackers to carry out remote code execution, could disable Google Play Protect in devices, or could collect information on users\u2019 web activities. At the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, Maddie Stone, a security researcher on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1512,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-mobile-phones","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94689","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=94689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}