Alguns aplicativos da Samsung Galaxy Store podem ser fontes de malware

Aplicativos potencialmente perigosos são distribuídos pela própria loja de aplicativos da Samsung, de acordo com pesquisadores.

At least five apps have been found that are harmful to your smartphone. It concerns imitators of the Showbox app, reports Max Weinbach of Android Police on Twitter. The original Showbox app, with which you can stream movies and series, no longer exists.

Os aplicativos falsos em si não prejudicam seu smartphone, mas são usados ​​como escotilha de acesso para problemas mais sérios malwares.

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Em conversa com Android Police tells researcher ‘Linuxct’ how the apps work. They have the ability to perform dynamic code execution on a smartphone. This causes the apps to download and install potentially malicious data.

“There are very few legitimate uses for this method,” says the researcher. “It can be easily weaponized, so that’s probably the original purpose of the apps. The software can just change to a trojan or malware, which is why it is unsafe.”

A boa notícia é que o Google Play Protect, um antivírus móvel que scans apps, will warn you when you try to download one of the apps. The bad news is that because the apps are on Samsung’s Galaxy Store, the warning is easy to ignore. The apps have hundreds of reviews and possibly hundreds of downloads.

De acordo com a Android Police, os aplicativos maliciosos são todos imitadores do Showbox, um aplicativo de streaming ilegal que está fora de ação há dois anos.