‘LightsOut’ Malware In The Google Play Store: How It Works

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Check Point researchers have detected a new type of adware roaming Google Play, the official app store of Google. The malware overrides the user’s decision to disable ads showing outside of a legitimate context, and then, in many of the apps, hides its icon to hinder efforts to remove it.

Dubbed ‘LightsOut’, the malware hid itself in 22 different flashlight and utility apps, and reached a spread of between 1.5 million and 7.5 million downloads.

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https://research.checkpoint.com/lightsout-malicious-flashlights-apps-on-google-play



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