{"id":72334,"date":"2012-01-12T12:42:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T12:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=72334"},"modified":"2012-01-12T12:42:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T12:42:06","slug":"android-rougeware-targeting-stevens-creek-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/android-rougeware-targeting-stevens-creek-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Android Rougeware targeting \u201cStevens Creek Software\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have received a new malicious Android malware which is using the names of popular games and applications published under the name &#8220;Stevens Creek Software&#8221; to get installed on the user&#8217;s mobile.<br \/>\nAnd the interesting thing about this rogueware is that unlike other Android malware which ask for numerous permissions before getting installed, it asks for only three permissions.<\/p>\n<p>After installation it shows this message:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.quickheal.com\/uploads\/a_new.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"115\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When a user clicks on the screen, after multiple redirects it leads the user to websites advertising an online income solution.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.quickheal.com\/uploads\/b1.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"324\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To avoid such situations we request the user to check if the publisher of the paid version and the free version are the same before installing the software.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Sandip for providing the details.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/mobileseclt.asp\">Quick heal Mobile Security<\/a> detects the file as <strong>Android.Fakeseek.A<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have received a new malicious Android malware which is using the names of popular games and applications published under the name &#8220;Stevens Creek Software&#8221; to get installed on the user&#8217;s mobile. And the interesting thing about this rogueware is that unlike other Android malware which ask for numerous permissions before getting installed, it asks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,24,60],"tags":[56,57,59,26,61,67],"class_list":["post-72334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-malware","category-smartphone","tag-android-security","tag-droid-defense","tag-mobile-devices","tag-rogueware","tag-smartphone-security","tag-third-party-apps"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}