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Over 5 lakh Huawei Android devices infected with Joker malware - HT Tech

Over 5 lakh Huawei Android devices infected with Joker malware - HT Tech

Over 5 lakh Huawei Android devices infected with Joker malware - HT Tech
Apr 12, 2021 1 min, 7 secs

Over five lakh Huawei users reportedly downloaded apps from Huawei's official app store thinking they were legitimate apps, only to get infected with the notorious Joker malware.

 According to a report from Bleeping Computer, security firm Dr Web disclosed that ten applications on the company's AppGallery were masquerading as official apps, and retained the functionality of the apps they were impersonating — only to perform malicious tasks in the background. .

The security firm revealed the security issues recently, stating that it regularly comes across new versions and modifications of the malware, which was initially discovered in 2019.

Security firm finds app store infected with malware.

As the malicious apps retained all their original functionality, they would work as expected when a user launched them, the security firm said they managed to stay below the radar without being detected by the user.

The company said that Huawei also unpublished the apps from the AppGallery store after it alerted the tech giant to their existence, and that it would conduct an additional investigation to minimise the risks of such an incident occurring in the future

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