Security News > 2021 > April > Joker malware infects over 500,000 Huawei Android devices
More than 500,000 Huawei users have downloaded from the company's official Android store applications infected with Joker malware that subscribes to premium mobile services.
These ten apps were downloaded by more than 538,000 Huawei users, Doctor Web says.
The researchers say that the same modules downloaded by the infected apps in AppGallery were also present in other apps on Google Play, used by other versions of Joker malware.
Joker malware's history goes as far back as 2017 and constantly found its way in apps distributed through Google Play store.
In October 2019, Tatyana Shishkova, Android malware analyst at Kaspersky, tweeted about more than 70 compromised apps that had made it into the official store.
In early 2020, Google announced that since 2017, it had removed about 1,700 apps infected with Joker.
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