The Anatsa banking trojan has been targeting users in Europe by infecting Android devices through malware droppers hosted on Google Play.

The five malicious apps are:

  1. Phone Cleaner - File Explorer (com.volabs.androidcleaner)
  2. PDF Viewer - File Explorer (com.xolab.fileexplorer)
  3. PDF Reader - Viewer & Editor (com.jumbodub.fileexplorerpdfviewer)
  4. Phone Cleaner: File Explorer (com.appiclouds.phonecleaner)
  5. PDF Reader: File Manager (com.tragisoap.fileandpdfmanager)
  • IllNess@infosec.pubOPEnglish
    61·
    9 months ago

    Google won’t put those things in AOSP because they lose the opportunity to promote their own apps with trackers.

    • AnomalousBitEnglish
      7·
      9 months ago

      I’m sure there are other examples, but Android is definitely the first instance I encountered of big corps trying to use “open source” as a benefit only to poison pill their offering into a nearly useless corner. One of the many examples of Google torching their positive reputation over the years.

      • IllNess@infosec.pubOPEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        How Meta said Threads was going to support ActivityPub?

        Or Oracle buying Java just to sue companies like Google for using it maybe?

        I’m sure Oracle has a ton of examples that I cannot remember at the moment.