After a year Joker virus surfaced again in Android apps
By MYBRANDBOOK
The dangerous Joker virus has freshly targeted eight new Android apps. The malicious virus steals users' data, including SMS, contact list, device info, OTPs and more. Earlier in July 2020, Joker virus targeted as much as more than 40 Android apps available on Google Play Store post which Google had to remove those infected apps from Play Store.
The eight apps that were infected by the Joker virus are Auxiliary Message, Fast magic SMS, Free CamScanner, Super Message, Element Scanner, Go messages, travel wallpapers and Super SMS. The publication notes that all the infected apps have been removed by Google from the play store but if the apps remain on the user’s device, the virus will stay.
Joker is a malware Trojan that primarily targets Android users. The malware interacts with users through apps. Google had removed around 11 Joker-infected apps from Play Store in July and removed 34 apps in October that year. As per cyber security film Zcaler, the malicious apps had over 120,000 downloads.
Some of the apps that were infected with the Joker Virus includes All Good PDF Scanner, Mint Leaf Message-Your Private Message, Unique Keyboard Fancy Fonts & Free Emoticons, Tangram App Lock, Direct Messenger, Private SMS, One Sentence Translator Multifunctional Translator, Style Photo Collage, Meticulous Scanner, Talent Photo Editor Blur focus, Care Message, Part Message, Paper Doc Scanner and Blue Scanner.
“Joker is one of the most prominent malware families that continually targets Android devices. Despite awareness of this particular malware, it keeps finding its way into Google’s official application market by employing changes in its code, execution methods, or payload-retrieving techniques. This spyware is designed to steal SMS messages, contact lists, and device information along with silently signing up the victim for premium wireless application protocol (WAP) services,” Zcaler said in a blog post.
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