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Warning for Android users! New malware subscribes users to premium services

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irizflick 07/03/2022 101 Views
Updated 2022/07/04 at 5:29 PM
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Amer­i­can tech giant Microsoft­’s 365 Defend­er Team has stat­ed that a mal­ware that allows users to sub­scribe to a pre­mi­um ser­vice with­out their knowl­edge is gain­ing pop­u­lar­i­ty. How­ev­er, accord­ing to GSM Are­na, the team has stat­ed that the attack of this mal­ware is quite sophis­ti­cat­ed and there are some steps that the mal­ware has to take. First of all, the apps host­ing the mal­ware are usu­al­ly clas­si­fied as “fee fraud” and use “dynam­ic code load­ing” to car­ry out the attack.

In short, the mal­ware sub­scribes users to a pre­mi­um ser­vice with their month­ly tele­com bill and then forces them to pay.

The mal­ware only works by exploit­ing the so-called WAP (Wire­less Appli­ca­tion Pro­to­col) used by cel­lu­lar net­works. Because of this, some types of mal­ware dis­able your WiFi or just wait for you to leave WiFi coverage.

This is where the dynam­ic code load­ing men­tioned above comes into play. The mal­ware then silent­ly sub­scribes you to a ser­vice, reads an OTP (one-time pass­word) that you may receive pri­or to sub­scrib­ing, fills in the OTP field on your behalf, and also hides the noti­fi­ca­tion to cov­er its tracks .

The sav­ing grace is that the mal­ware is most­ly dis­trib­uted out­side of Google Play, as Google restricts apps’ use of dynam­ic code load­ing accord­ing to GSM Arena.

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