SimBad: A Rogue Adware Campaign On Google Play [research.checkpoint.com]
210 Android apps were infected with adware, researchers find [www.cnet.com]
Android adware spread through simulator games in the Google Play Store [www.theverge.com]
Friends don't let friends buy Android phones.
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) March 13, 2019
200 apps with malware that have been downloaded over 150 million times removed! Google’s official figures put the number of apps it removed last year at about 700,000.https://t.co/smRsD8LbpZ pic.twitter.com/nXGZtnRqZb
New: Google was forced to pull more than 200 Android apps, accounting for 150 million downloads, after security researchers found malware. https://t.co/YU87vl1k0k
— Zack Whittaker (@zackwhittaker) March 13, 2019
210 Android apps were infected with adware, researchers find https://t.co/o8KPibA9uR pic.twitter.com/n3LeOqdCwL
— CNET (@CNET) March 13, 2019
The worst about this is that many users thought popup ads were shown by their launcher. Smart Launcher 5.2 will include a tool to help users detecting this kind of malware. https://t.co/xvCgNflD2n
— Smart Launcher (@SmartLauncher5) March 13, 2019
1억5천만 DL을 기록했던 앱을 비롯한 200여개의 안드로이드 앱이 애드웨어를 내장하고 있었다는게 드러나. https://t.co/923xtrTlgU
— 푸른곰 (@purengom) March 13, 2019
Android adware had nearly 150 million Google Play downloads before being pulled https://t.co/481DzjOpXR pic.twitter.com/hRcsoco4yy
— The Verge (@verge) March 13, 2019
발각된 앱의 개수와 다운로드수를 보면 나름 대형 사고. 페이스북이 오픈소스 공개한 Parse로 통제 서버를 구현. 향후 확장성까지 고려한 모던하고 트렌디한 아키텍처를 범죄자들도 구현하는 오픈소스 혁신.
— Goodhyun 김국현 (@goodhyun) March 14, 2019
https://t.co/lRSfwHtmzc
ちなみに元の記事にはちゃんとパッケージ名が書いてある。https://t.co/xOAFvQQ4Zq
— M3@akiba (@M3akiba) March 14, 2019
ITメディアは影響力が大きいと自覚もつべきなんじゃないかなぁ?
アホはみんな「Androidは危ない!」とか思うよ。
SimBad は特定のアプリではありません。アプリに含まれる機能の塊だと思ってください。こいつがバンドルされているアプリの一覧です。
— ぴょっ! (@Pyo0072) March 14, 2019
もしもインストールされている場合、アプリの削除をお勧めします。https://t.co/7pDoPyWgsz
マルウェアが確認されたアプリが載ってます
— 鎌鼬 (@Wind_Beast) March 14, 2019
下の表のApp Nameで名前が確認できます
確認して意味があるかはわかりませんが…
SimBad: A Rogue Adware Campaign On Google Play - Check Point Research https://t.co/uakzfDS5k6
Android adware had nearly 150 million Google Play downloads before being pulled https://t.co/481DzjOpXR pic.twitter.com/VhKtzqqYau
— The Verge (@verge) March 14, 2019