security firm Lookout has reported a new type of malware for Android christened environments BadNews, “bad news” in Castilian, a name without a doubt comes in handy. This malware has the ability to display notifications to download other applications, made with our personal data and send messages with cost for the affected user.
Their presence has been detected in 32 applications present in Google Play, belonging to 4 different developers, essentially clones of successful applications. As BadNews infection has spread through integrated coming as framework to insert advertising, which calls to mind the innocence of those responsible for the 32 applications that simply would have been infected to use this framework without malice.
Yet despite his possible innocence, Google has removed applications mentioned and has temporarily suspended its developers accounts, waiting to deepen their research.
I enclose a list of infected applications and we recommend that in the event that you have installed any of them proceed upon to eliminate it. currently do not have exact data, but it is estimated that the number of users BadNews be affected by between 2 and 9 million.
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