{"id":91901,"date":"2016-05-16T11:55:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T09:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=91901"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:59:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T09:59:38","slug":"androids-biggest-malware-threat-can-be-downloaded-straight-off-the-google-play-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/91901-androids-biggest-malware-threat-can-be-downloaded-straight-off-the-google-play-store","title":{"rendered":"Android’s biggest malware threat can be downloaded straight off the Google Play Store"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tens of thousands of Android users are thought to have accidentally<\/a><\/strong> downloaded malware from the Google Play Store.<\/p>\n

Named “Viking Horde”, after one of the games the malware mimics, the “malware campaign” consists of a number of games and apps that appear almost identical to other popular downloads.<\/p>\n

Upon installation, the device will automatically join a botnet and provide full access to parts of the devices it infects – potentially leading to theft of personal data.<\/p>\n

These fake apps are readily available through Google Play, and can be downloaded on nearly every Android device.<\/p>\n

The apps appear to evade Google’s malware scanners and several of the games have been downloadable for over a month.<\/p>\n

Security firm Check Point<\/a><\/strong> confirm that the malware is incredibly persistent and almost impossible to get rid of.<\/p>\n

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Thousands of Android users are thought to have accidentally downloaded malware from the Google Play Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":91903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585],"tags":[31,947,18605,6718,18261],"class_list":["post-91901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-android","tag-goole-play-store","tag-malware","tag-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91967,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91901\/revisions\/91967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}