New Malicious Clicker found in apps installed by 20M+ users

McAfee Blog – 10.20.22 (10.19.22)

Cybercriminals are always after illegal advertising revenue. As we have previously reported, we have seen many mobile malwares masquerading as a useful tool or utility, and automatically crawling ads in the background. Recently the McAfee Mobile Research Team has identified new Clicker malware that sneaked into Google Play. In total 16 applications that were previously on Google Play have been confirmed to have the malicious payload with an assumed 20 million installations.

Source: New Malicious Clicker found in apps installed by 20M+ users | McAfee Blog