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11 million devices infected with botnet malware hosted in Google Play
Necro infiltrated Google Play in 2019. It recently returned.
Researchers from the same Moscow, Russia-based security firm reported Monday that they found two new apps, downloaded from Play 11 million times, that were infected with the same malware family. Follow-on payloads that get installed download malicious plugins that can be mixed and matched for each infected device to perform a variety of different actions. To bypass this safety restriction, Necro uses a hacking technique known as a reflection attack to create a separate instance of the WebView factory.
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