Comments on: Stealthy Android Malware Disguised as an Adblocker and Run in Background By Requesting Fake VPN Connection https://gbhackers.com/stealthy-android-malware/ GBhackers Offering Exclusive Cyber Security News Coverage, New Research papers & Technology Updates. Wed, 04 Sep 2024 12:13:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Luca https://gbhackers.com/stealthy-android-malware/#comment-7101 Sun, 01 Dec 2019 23:00:33 +0000 https://gbhackers.com/?p=39457#comment-7101 I recently encountered this after clicking on an ad by mistake (fake popup masked as a download link). When I ran it and saw that it masked itself as adblocker and asked for overlay permissions and VPN connection I immediately canceled. However I shortly after got an on screen popup even though I did not give it any authorization(!!). I scanned using Malware bytes and the built in McAfee scanner but nothing turned up. I did see however that both scanners scanned an “empty” icon app without detecting any problems. I then rebooted my Samsung S10 in safe mode and in the apps I found the 6MB empty icon app listed which I terminated and uninstalled. Apparently everything is back to normal after exiting safe mode.

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