Here’s why you should delete these apps from your Android phones
Here’s why you should delete these apps from your Android phones
McAfee identifies 25 malicious apps for Android smartphones, infecting 338,300 devices with the 'Xamalicious' backdoor. The apps gain accessibility privileges through social engineering, then download a second-stage payload for full control of the device. They use the Xamarin framework and obfuscation techniques to evade detection and exfiltrate data. Most infections occurred in the US, Germany, Spain, UK, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina. The infected apps have been removed from Google Play, but the status of other third-party app store installations is unknown.
McAfee identifies 25 malicious apps for Android smartphones, infecting 338,300 devices with the 'Xamalicious' backdoor. The apps gain accessibility privileges through social engineering, then download a second-stage payload for full control of the device. They use the Xamarin framework and obfuscation techniques to evade detection and exfiltrate data. Most infections occurred in the US, Germany, Spain, UK, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina. The infected apps have been removed from Google Play, but the status of other third-party app store installations is unknown.
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McAfee identifies 25 malicious apps for Android smartphones, infecting 338,300 devices with the 'Xamalicious' backdoor. The apps gain accessibility privileges through social engineering, then download a second-stage payload for full control of the device. They use the Xamarin framework and obfuscation techniques to evade detection and exfiltrate data. Most infections occurred in the US, Germany, Spain, UK, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina. The infected apps have been removed from Google Play, but the status of other third-party app store installations is unknown. 
