Google Play Store is flooded with a malicious cryptocurrency app posing as a legitimate crypto wallet and it seems that they are not able to control the influx. These apps steal keys from the users and then drain their accounts.
In 2018 alone, the company has removed three instances of malign versions of the apps. Recently, Security researcher Lukas Stafanko has found another malicious version of a popular cryptocurrency app MyEtherWallet which is especially delineated to steal users private keys and secretly take out all their funds.
According to the researcher, the malicious app has allegedly remained available to download for four days before the Google took it down from its Play Store.
In January this year, Google took down another corrupted instance of MyEtherWallet, but it remained on the Play Store for more than a week and was downloaded between 100 and 500 times before it was removed from the Store. Fortunately, this time it appears that nobody downloaded the app.
Security researcher Troy Mursch has said that there should be “no excuse” as the company is not able to prevent malicious apps from appearing up in the Play Store. “Slow abuse handling only provides more incentive for apps like this to be published,” Mursch said on Twitter.
Google has to do something very seriously to respond to these dangerous issues.
In 2018 alone, the company has removed three instances of malign versions of the apps. Recently, Security researcher Lukas Stafanko has found another malicious version of a popular cryptocurrency app MyEtherWallet which is especially delineated to steal users private keys and secretly take out all their funds.
According to the researcher, the malicious app has allegedly remained available to download for four days before the Google took it down from its Play Store.
In January this year, Google took down another corrupted instance of MyEtherWallet, but it remained on the Play Store for more than a week and was downloaded between 100 and 500 times before it was removed from the Store. Fortunately, this time it appears that nobody downloaded the app.
Security researcher Troy Mursch has said that there should be “no excuse” as the company is not able to prevent malicious apps from appearing up in the Play Store. “Slow abuse handling only provides more incentive for apps like this to be published,” Mursch said on Twitter.
Google has to do something very seriously to respond to these dangerous issues.