The malware campaign promised users a free pair of shoes within 14 days of ordering them from within the app.
Mostly when we come across scams on the Play Store, they are in the form of apps offering some sort of legitimate usage while doing malicious activities in the background. However, there are a few times when vulnerabilities put billions of Android devices at risk or when some genius thinks of doing the bare minimum and getting away with it.
In the latest, researchers from White Ops have reported on such a malware campaign in which fraudsters uploaded apps on the Play Store which promised users a free pair of shoes within 14 days of ordering them from within the app.
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Users could choose a pair of their choice with a promise that it would be shipped in 14 days. This naturally made users amused which was seen in the form of good reviews piling up.
However, reality kicked in and the shoes never came because that wasn’t the purpose of the apps anyways. In actuality, what the apps were doing is delivering ad-malware dubbed as TERRACOTTA. Explaining, the researchers state in their blog post that,
The real payload—a customized Android browser packaged alongside a control module written in the Reac ..
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