The different cyber security analysts have been discovered dangerous information stealer, Trojan inside hundreds of the Android Apps in the Huawei AppGallery and that have collectively clocked over 9 million Downloads. The Trojan is the variant of the Cynos Malware and it is commonly called Android Cynos 7 origin. It is designed to collect the sensitive user data and it is discovered by the Cyber security sleuths at Dr Web.
Apps that having the Android cynos 7 origin ask users for the permission to make and managed the mobile phone calls. It allows the Trojan to gain access to the certain data and it is explained by researchers. Apart from the English users some of the games are targeted Russian and the Chinese audiences and were fully localized in these languages. Trojan have been joined and integrated into the Android apps and employ all kinds of the procedures and techniques to monitor them at the expense of the downloader.
In the Huawei AppGallery the variant is found and it collects the information about the users and about their devices and display ads. The leak of the mobile phone contacts and can be seen as the insignificant issue at the very first time. But in reality it can harm users and also the children are the games main target audience. Along with phone numbers the Trojan also gathered the device location based on GPS coordinates, or the mobile network or WIFI access and the several mobile network parameters.
In more than 190 different Android gaming apps the Trojan is found. It includes the arcade games, shooters and more of all which worked as, advertised and leading to the high number of downloads. But for now, different researchers have shared their discovery with Huawei and said they have removed all the 190 malicious apps.
