Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Alert: Fraudulent BatteryBot Pro version of the app for Android – Pplware

Every 18 seconds appears malware for Android! These are the statistics, according to a report by G DATA and, it seems, Google does not have at present forces to control the situation.

It was recently discovered a fraudulent version of the app BatteryBot Pro Android, which had been approved and made available on Google Play

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BatteryBot Pro is an application for Android, very popular and allows a centralized and detailed, view various details about the battery of Android devices.

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Building on the success of the app, cybercriminals managed to create a clone but with a part that contained malicious code (had other options in the app that worked the same way as the original) able to send value-added SMS .

Please note that this app was published to Google Play.

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If you are a user who has installed the app BatteryBot PRo should proceed to uninstall. However according to the Softpedia website, even after the app removing the malware is still present in the system.

While in some of the scenarios we Were able to manually delete the app, the malware authors have taken care of Ensure persistence. The malware silently installs an app with a package name of com.nb.superuser, Which runs as a different thread and resides on the device even if the app is forcefully deleted.

So far there is no information or any solution for the complete removal of the app, including their malicious content.

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