Malware enters Google Play Store and disguises itself as an antivirus app
Once again, malware appears to be roaming the Google Play Store. A hitherto little-known banking malware disguises itself as an antivirus app, the Trojan wants to steal your login data and then send it to the criminals behind it.
Bleeping Computer became aware of the Trojan SharkBot through the security experts of the NCC Group. This Trojan masquerades as an antivirus program with system cleaning capabilities on the Google Play Store. And these are often downloaded and installed.
Since it is actually assumed that no malware is foisted on Google's official Play Store, the app has already been downloaded and installed several times. To what extent this also happened in Europe has not yet been clarified.
SharkBot can send money from bank accounts via automatic transfer systems. Touches, clicks and keystrokes were simulated on infiltrated devices and this is how transactions are said to have been possible. However, it is said that only in a few cases was it actually possible to capture money.
Unfortunately, this again shows that malware developers still find it too easy to bypass Google's automatic protection measures. The app has since been removed, but anyone who has installed the app called "Antivirus, Super Cleaner" by Zbynek Adamcik should delete it immediately!
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