Android apps carrying windows malware
A total of 45 different Android apps were recently removed by Google from the company’s Play Store after it discovered that the applications were carrying malicious Windows .exe (executable) files, according to Palo Alto Networks. A group of researchers from Palo Alto revealed that the vast majority of the affected apps had essentially been uploaded to Google’s Play Store sometime between October and November of last year, and they had remained in the Play Store for more than six months. After being alerted about the malicious apps, Google immediately took action and removed all of them. Although the apps in question did not pose any threat to the users who had actually downloaded and installed them on their Android devices, the malicious code contained in the Android package kit (APK) was evidence of the risks that supply chain attacks can pose. The developers of these apps had essentially built them on Windows systems that had been comprised. A few of the af