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The Canadian security company "Lookout" has discovered a set of applications that use malicious programs to spy on users of the "Android" operating system, allegedly created by a Russian company.
According to the British newspaper "Express", these applications appear at first glance, such as current operating system programs, "Android" from Google, where malware is downloaded on fake versions of Android applications such as Evernote, Google Play, Skype and PornHub.
The newspaper notes that six previously found applications, "Android" downloaded 90 million times since the store, "Google Play" on Google Play, and these applications come with the program PreAMo, used in espionage.
Another recent threat regarding 50 applications containing malware has appeared on the Google Play store, which extends to more than 30 million Android devices.
And Andrew users are once again aware of the existence of malicious malware models aimed at users of Google's mobile operating system.
Cybersecurity experts have discovered that these fake apps steal users' pbadwords and turn their Android phones into eavesdropper devices, which allow key screens of locked Android phones to be stolen in order to steal words. pbadword and listen to calls.
"Monokle appears in a very limited set of applications, which means that attacks using Monokle are highly targeted," said Lookout.
Google said that no counterfeit application was hosted on the official Google Play store.
They added that Android users would receive a warning if Google Play Protect detected spyware on their computers.
Android is one of the most popular programs in the world, used by more than two billion people a month. These are targeted programs running Android on Google devices since 2016, with a significant increase in activity at the beginning of last year.
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