Malicious beauty and photo-editing apps phish users

In February 2019, the cybersecurity company Trend Micro found that at least 29 beauty and photo editing apps that had been downloaded more than 4 million times from Google's Play Store included code that pushed full-screen ads for fraudulent or pornography content or that directed users to phishing sites by making them believe they had won a contest. A second group of camera apps that claimed to improve photos actually uploaded them to a remote server controlled by the app developer and then pushed fake updates that led to phishing sites. 

https://thehackernews.com/2019/02/beauty-camera-android-apps.html

Writer: Swati Khandelwal
Publication: Hacker News
tags: apps, phishing, Google, Android, security, malware