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Titre: [AVAST]New Monero mining malware discovered in Google Play
Posté par: igor51 le mars 15, 2018, 15:00:09

New Monero mining malware discovered in Google Play

In November 2017, we detected a strain of malware known as JSMiner in Google Play. The Monero cryptomining capabilities were discovered inside the gaming application Cooee. At the time of discovery, we forecasted a rise in mobile mining malware as attackers shift their attention from PC to mobile. And this week, we identified two more cryptomining apps in Google Play: SP Browser and Mr. MineRusher with a combined subscriber base in the thousands.

Source: New Monero mining malware discovered in Google Play (https://blog.avast.com/new-monero-mining-malware-discovered-in-google-play)