APKPure Compromised to Deliver Malware

From ehackingnews.com

APKPure, one of the biggest alternative application stores outside of the Google Play Store, was tainted with malware this week, permitting threat actors to disseminate Trojans to Android gadgets. In an incident that is like that of German telecommunications equipment manufacturer Gigaset, the APKPure customer variant 3.17.18 is said to have been altered trying to trick unsuspecting clients into downloading and installing noxious applications linked to the malevolent code incorporated into the APKpure application. The development was reported by researchers from Doctor Web and Kaspersky.

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