{"id":227,"date":"2019-07-18T07:29:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T07:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/?p=227"},"modified":"2019-07-18T14:17:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T14:17:02","slug":"malware-attack-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/malware-attack-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Malware attack alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Possibility of a malware attack in android smartphones, named \u201cAgent\u00a0Smith\u201d has been alerted by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre of\u00a0Ministry of Home Affairs. This malware is disguised as a Google-related\u00a0<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">application which exploits known android vulnerabilities and\u00a0automatically replaces installed apps with malicious versions without<br \/>\nuser\u2019s knowledge or interaction.<br \/>\nAs per Checkpoint Research, this malware is originally downloaded\u00a0from the widely used third party app-store like \u201c9Apps\u201d (Android app\u00a0store backed by UCWeb). Most infections occurred on devices running\u00a0Android 5 and 6 versions.<br \/>\nThe malware infects the device through unwanted advertisement\/popup like Install mobile anti-virus, sex game, enhance selfie camera, etc.<br \/>\nThis, in turn, collects personal information, banking credentials, etc.\u00a0Google had identified and removed 16 apps from the Play Store and\u00a0if anyone has the following apps installed on his\/ her Android phone,\u00a0please uninstall it immediately.<br \/>\n1. Ludo Master \u2013 New Ludo Game 201 For Free<br \/>\n2. Sky Warriors: General Attack<br \/>\n3. Color Phone Flash \u2013 Call Screen Theme<br \/>\n4. Bio Blast \u2013 Infinity Battle Shoot virus<br \/>\n5. Shooting Jet<br \/>\n6. Photo Projector<br \/>\n7. Gun Hero \u2013 Gunman Game for Free<br \/>\n8. Cooking Witch<br \/>\n9. Blockman Go: Free Realms &amp;amp; Mini-Games<br \/>\n10. Crazy Juicer \u2013 Hot Knife Hit Game &amp;amp; Juice Blast<br \/>\n11. Clash if Virus<br \/>\n12. Angry Virus<br \/>\n13. Rabbit Temple<br \/>\n14. Star Range<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>15. Kiss Game: Touch Her Heart<br \/>\n16. Girl Cloth Wray Scan Simulator<\/p>\n<p>\uf0d8 Do not download\/install untrusted mobile-app from the third party<br \/>\nwebsite store<br \/>\n\uf0d8 Do not install applications being sent as .apk files or in any other<br \/>\nthe executable format in any message or link<br \/>\n\uf0d8 Ensure mobile-app and anti-virus application are up to date<br \/>\n\uf0d8 Keep operating systems running at the current released patch level<br \/>\n\uf0d8 Uninstall the apps which are no longer being used by you<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Possibility of a malware attack in android smartphones, named \u201cAgent\u00a0Smith\u201d has been alerted by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre of\u00a0Ministry of Home Affairs. This malware is disguised as a Google-related\u00a0application which exploits known android vulnerabilities and\u00a0automatically replaces installed apps with malicious versions without user\u2019s knowledge or interaction. As per Checkpoint Research, this malware is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101012,"featured_media":228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}