Security News > 2017 > May > Super Free Music Player is the latest malware on Google Play (Help Net Security)
2017-05-02 21:37
Another day, another piece of malware lurking on Google Play, masquerading as a free and helpful app. This time it’s called “Super Free Music Player” and is supposedly a “great song app for discovering and listening to trending music”, and contains “unlimited free songs from Soundcloud.” The app has been pulled from the store quite recently, but it managed to amass between 5,000 and 10,000 downloads in a month. The malware inside Sophos researchers dubbed … More →
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