The Joker malware has been doing the rounds on Google Play for a while, and signs up the infected phone to premium mobile subscriptions. But this is the first time it’s been spotted on Huawei ...

The Joker malware, which has previously infected several Google Android apps, is now back with another malicious scheme. Cybersecurity experts spotted the mobile trojan in a similar platform: ...

A cybersecurity firm found Joker malware in four free apps on Google Play, affecting more than 100,000 users. These malware-infected apps for Android could secretly run up your phone bill without ...

"Unlike the previous campaign where the payloads were retrieved from the Alibaba Cloud, in this campaign we saw the Joker-infected apps download the mediator payload with URL shortener services ...

Despite Google's efforts to combat Joker, Android users must remain vigilant. The hackers behind this malicious software can launch up to 23 fake applications in a single day, making it difficult to ...

The Joker malware made a comeback, unfortunately, as 7 apps have been infected. This information comes from Tatyana Shishkova , a malware analyst at the security firm Kaspersky.

All the Joker-infected apps have been removed from Google Play, and Google has remotely disabled the apps on users' phones. But if you downloaded any of these apps, you'll still need to manually ...

Most importantly, though, despite there being a dozen unique builds of the Joker payload across the 24 infected apps, Google has managed to identify and remove all of them from the store.

“After successful installation, the application infected with Joker will run a scan using Google Play APIs to check the latest version of the app in Google Play Store,” they explained.

While most of the time, this didn't work, sometimes it did. For example, in September 2019, security researcher Aleksejs Kuprins found 24 apps infected with the Bread (Joker) malware that slipped ...

Android applications infected with Joker malware, a spyware and premium dialer tool also known as Bread and tracked since 2017, were originally designed to perform SMS fraud.