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Squid Game app on Play Store was spreading Joker malware

Squid Game and Joker malware turn out to be a “killer combination” after all. Netflix’s biggest ever series Squid Game is a smash hit with over 142 million users watching it globally. This dystopian series from Korea has raked in approx. $900 million against a relatively underwhelming production cost of $21.4 million. The craze surrounding Squid […]

Watch out Android users as Joker malware is back on Play Store

The researchers managed to identify and report the presence of Joker malware in 8 apps on Google Play Store. In the past three years, the Joker malware has made headlines quite frequently by invading applications available on Google Play Store. The malware infects the user’s device after the infected application is downloaded and keeps collecting […]

Play Store apps plagued with malware have 700,000 downloads

Cybersecurity researchers at Trend Micro and McAfee have separately published reports to alert users about a new set of fake and malware-infected Android applications on the Google Play Store. These malicious apps can carry out billing fraud by hijacking SMS message notifications. According to researchers, users in the Arabian Peninsula and Southwest Asia are the […]