Hundreds of Malware-Laden Apps Downloaded 41 Million Times From Google Play
Zscaler estimates 239 malicious Android apps made it onto the official Play store over the past year
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Zscaler estimates 239 malicious Android apps made it onto the official Play store over the past year
Hundreds of malicious Android apps on Google Play were downloaded more than 40 million times between June 2024 and May 2025, notes a report from cloud security company Zscaler. [...]
Zscaler’s ThreatLabz discovered malware spreading SpyNote RAT to Android and NjRAT/DCRat to Windows
Google has removed two new malicious dropper apps that have been detected on the Play Store for Android, one of which posed as a lifestyle app and was caught distributing the Xenomorph banking malware