Of those 525 virus protectors that triggered blacklist hits, 55 were in the Google Play store, researchers said, and the remainder from third-party app stores.
That means that more than one in 10 antivirus apps are traps waiting to push malware on your phone. In this latest worrisome episode, out of 4,292 active antivirus apps, 525 set off malware alarms for RiskIQ.
In recent months alone, besides WannaCry, we've had to worry about malware in movie subtitles, Word docs and flash drives breaches to a widely used password manager and threats to the power grids make modern digital life possible.
With seemingly everyone and everything connected over the internet, we're all just one bad download or weak password away from a bad situation. It's another unsettling discovery among the many cyberthreats now hanging over our heads. "There has been a recent rise in fake WannaCry 'protectors,' apps that use fear and hysteria around the self-propagating ransomware to drive downloads, even though mobile systems are safe from its impact," a RiskIQ spokeswoman said. Researchers found hundreds of fraudulent antivirus apps on the market - fakes packed with adware, Trojans and sources of malware. One of the phony WannaCry apps is actually blacklisted by RiskIQ's standards because of the red flags it raised. RiskIQ, a cybersecurity firm, found seven apps related to WannaCry in the Google Play store and two in Apple's App Store that demanded excessive permissions such as knowing your phone's wake password. First discovered by McAfee in late May, the flood of fake WannaCry protection apps points to a growing trend of viruses masquerading as antivirus apps. Perhaps more alarming was that these apps were filled with malware - executing the very attacks these apps promised to protect against.
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