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2022 Latest: Samsung’s Galaxy Store set to distribute apps that might infect phones with malware

Ransomodu by Ransomodu
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Samsung’s Galaxy Store set to distribute apps that might infect phones with malware .

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Obviously unreal ‘Showbox’ movie piracy apps stirred up a Play Protect warning, and an investigation that was carried out indicates that malware could be downloaded.

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It’s quite difficult running your own app store. Microsoft made a decision and choose Amazon’s when Windows 11 selected a support for Android applications instead of running its own, and most likely Samsung’s has been making a hedge around its bets, running its own app store for its Galaxy devices together with the Play Store for several years now. But, based on recent happenings it might be doing a better great at it. A lot Showbox movie piracy app look alike that Samsung is distributing to customers on its Galaxy App Store which may be able to infect customer’s devices with malware.

How Samsung Galaxy Store Distrubes Apps that Might Infect User’s Devices With Malware 

How Samsung Galaxy Store Distrubes Apps that Might Infect User's Devices With Malware
How Samsung Galaxy Store Distrubes Apps that Might Infect User’s Devices With Malware

This issues were spotted few days ago, in which a few Showbox-based apps distributed on the Galaxy Store were detected, a few of which triggered Google’s Play Protect warning as soon as installed. And obviously it has been seen that the warning should not be taken for granted. A detailed analysis of one of the Showbox apks at Virustotal indicates that a dozen under-grade notifications from security sales person which range from “riskware” to adware. A few of the apps have requested for more permissions than expected these includes premium access to call logs, Contacts, Phone book and not withstanding the telephone.

After reaching out to Android security analyst linuxct for a more detailed information regarding these ranging vulnerabilities. Thorough investigation shows that the advertisement tech in the app has the ability of doing a changing code execution in short, meanwhile the app itself as it’s being shared might not directly contain malware, it can only download and execute other code, that might include malware. During the report it was also added that there are very few genuine use cases for this particular function, and it could be easily manipulated.

“So at any given time it might become a trojan/malware, hence it’s not safe and thus why the reason why so many vendors launched the VT/Play Protect.”

This particular issues were stored in at least more than one Showbox application on the Galaxy Store, though others might be affected.

Samsung is not just distributing apps that can potentially reveal customers to malware, as well. These apps are all replicas of another popular Application called Showbox, together with a reputation that aids piracy and provides equal access to most copyrighted content, which includes movies and TV shows.

They are claims that the App description do not host pirated content and do not enable piracy. Each of the offending applications has not been tested individually, because of the nature of the warnings that were attached to each installations, and can’t directly detect if the apps can provide access to pirated content. Moreover, the name has that reputation, and a lot of “experts” that preferred to be anonymous assures that the app at some point enabled piracy. Self-hosted types of the Showbox app make exactly the same claims, which advertised the app as a “movie database” application with an embedded VPN.

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The Showbox subreddit takes notes of the fact that theShowbox is “down,” has been for over two years, and that third-party websites and apps propagated to be related are “illegal”. Google, it should be noted that it doesn’t host any of the apps that has been stated on the Play Store.

Samsung’s Galaxy Store over years has been known not to track install counts, but the apps that are been talked about when put together have hundreds of reviews, which includes several stuff that make notifies of malware warnings at the time of installation. After reaching out to Samsung to ask if it’s aware that it’s Galaxy Store might be distributing malware or if it’s aware of Showbox’s reputation for privacy to be enabled, but the company did not give an immediate response to the inquiries understandable, given the recent holiday, we await a positive response from the Samsung team.

While we await the Galaxy Store to sort things out, it is advised you download Apps from safer sources like the Play Store, to avoid downloading Apps with issues.

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