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DressCode Android Malware Found in over 40 Google Play Store Apps

  • September 1, 2016
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Malware turns infected devices into proxy servers

 
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Sep 1, 2016 01:10 GMT  ·  By Catalin Cimpanu  A new Android malware family called DressCode can be used as a proxy to relay attacks inside corporate networks and steal information from servers previously considered secure.
 
The malware's name comes from the countless dress-up games in which DressCode's authors have hidden their malicious code.
 
Check Point, the security firm that discovered this threat, says it identified over 40 apps on the Google Play store infected with malware, and over 400 similar apps distributed via unofficial third-party stores.

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Baldrick
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  • September 1, 2016
This bad...Google proclaimed a while back that they would sort this out and what have they done (and I could be rude here)...a big fat nothing apparently if the article is anything to go by. They should stop focussing on profits and start concentrating on customer service & security. :@