"Malicious actors behind these families repackage and inject malicious code into thousands of popular applications found in Google Play, and then later publish them to third-party app stores," Lookout noted in a blog post about the malware. That means the victims here were people who went outside of Google's official channels to install the imposter apps."Buyer beware!
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| Voice calls in Hangouts: call history (left); dialer (middle); in a call (right) (source: Google) |