Security News > 2021 > November > Careful: 'Smart TV remote' Android app on Google Play is malware
Two Android apps available on the Google Play store have been found to contain malware this week.
Smart TV remote app packs 'Joker' malware.
This week, Tatyana Shishkova, Android malware analyst at Kaspersky disclosed the names of two Google Play apps that are laced with Joker malware.
As also confirmed by Shishkova, the malicious code exists in the "Resources/assets/kup3x4nowz" file within the Smart TV remote app.
BleepingComputer has reported the malicious 'Smart TV remote' and 'Halloween Coloring' apps to Google Play prior to publishing, and we are awaiting Google's response.
"Google Play Protect checks apps when you install them. It also periodically scans your device. If it finds a potentially harmful app, it might send you a notification,... disable the app until you uninstall it, [or] remove the app automatically," state Google's official docs.
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