Security News > 2021 > October > Photo editor Android app STILL sitting on Google Play store is malware
An Android app sitting on the Google Play store touts itself to be a photo editor app.
Like many Android apps, the "Blender Photo Editor-Easy Photo Background Editor" app comes with the sign-in with Facebook functionality.
Tatyana Shishkova, an Android Malware Analyst at Kaspersky, discovered the "Trojan" app this week which is still available on the Google Play store, at the time of writing.
Ingrao had previously discovered similar malicious apps called "Magic Photo Lab - Photo Editor" and "Pix Photo Motion Edit 2021" with the latter scoring over 500,000 installs.
BleepingComputer also analyzed the APK for "Blender Photo Editor-Easy Photo Background Editor," which is still live on Google Play, and can confirm seeing identical malicious code in the app.
BleepingComputer has reported the aforementioned Blender photo editor app to Google Play prior to publishing.
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