Information security experts at "Dr. Web" have warned of the presence of dangerous software that has been downloaded millions of times to Android devices.
The company's experts indicated that they discovered more than 100 applications in the Google Play Store applications that were hacked with SpinOk software of the "Trojan horse" category, which is used to spy on Android devices.
According to the available information, there are currently 101 applications infected with SpinOk malware in the Google Play Store, and these applications have been downloaded through this store 421 million times.
SpinOk is malicious software that steals data from phones and smart devices and transfers it to special servers. When this software enters the devices, it searches for files and data with specific directories, copies the contents of these files and sends them to a third party. magnets in phones.
This software infiltrates the application in the form of small ads or games, and application developers sometimes unintentionally integrate its code into their applications, and then download the application in the Google Play Store.
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