Anatsa Android malware downloaded 150,000 times via Google Play - eviltoast
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)
  • AnomalousBit@programming.devEnglish
    16·
    9 months ago

    Maybe we need support for basic shit like file browsing and PDF viewing packaged with the OS? They still manage to make the OS require over 7 gigabytes of disk space, but can’t manage to squeeze this in?

    • cron@feddit.deEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      I recently bought a Xiaomi Phone and was shocked how bad their filebrowser is. Full of ads and connections to other file apps like nextcloud are missing.

      (I’ve installed lineageos now.)

    • 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.

      • AnomalousBit@programming.devEnglish
        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.