A clipper Trojan, threats on Google Play, and other events: August 2018 mobile virus activity review

August 31, 2018

Doctor Web presents its August 2018 overview of malware for mobile devices. In this month, Doctor Web security researchers have detected a clipper Trojan capable of changing e-wallet numbers on the clipboard of Android devices. Moreover, the distribution of numerous malicious applications on Google Play has been detected. Information security researchers have also detected a new spying Trojan.

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