The BankBot Android banking trojan is giving Google engineers headaches, as this particular piece of malware has a knack for avoiding Google’s security scans and reaching the official Play Store on a regular basis. The malware’s creators improved the codebase and added the ability to disguise the malware enough to trick the Google Bouncer security scanner. The first of those apps was one named Funny Videos 2017, and was taken down last week, but not before reaching between 1,000 and 5,000 downloads. The second app, HappyTimes Videos, was just taken down over the Easter holiday.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-reaches-play-store-as-google-wages-war-against-bankbot-trojan/