May 19, 2023 By Pierluigi Paganini
The Lemon Group cybercrime ring has reportedly pre-installed malware known as Guerilla on almost 9 million Android devices.
A cybercrime group tracked has Lemon Group has reportedly pre-installed malware known as Guerilla on almost 9 million Android devices. Infected devices were used for multiple malicious activities, including traffic redirections through mobile proxies, info-stealing, click fraud, and social media and online messaging accounts and monetization via advertisements.
The network of compromised devices was discovered by Trend Micro which shared details of its investigation at the Black Hat Asia 2023 conference in May.