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Watch out for this new malware called joker, aimed at Android smartphones. Found in 24 apps on the Google Playstore, but removed.
Once installed, the software secretly registers the victim with a variety of premium services, silently clicking on app ads and using SMS verification codes to verify subscription payment.
The Joker secretly steals contacts from your address book, collects all numbers from your contact list and sends them to C&C in encrypted form.
The Joker would be downloaded at least half a million times via various malicious applications.
The Joker malware only attacks targeted countries. Most of the infected apps contain a list of Mobile Country Codes (MCC) and the victim has to be using a SIM card from one of these countries in order to receive the second stage payload.
Android smartphones has been a major targets of Trojans attack in recent times so is not surprising seeing this. Though Google has been removing apps suspected to be infected with malwares, but there is no guarantee that the ones removed are the only infected apps in Google play store.
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