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Mobile Menace Monday: Fake AV makes it onto Google Play

Antivirus Free 2016 is given permission to read, write, send, and receive SMS messages. Because of its extensive malicious intent, we have classified it as Android/Trojan.FakeAV. The apps receiver and service names, such as com.xxx.message.service.receiver.SmsReceiver,. comxxx. service.receive.MmsReceive, and. com.xxx.service.RespondService, containing these codes raises enough suspicion on their own. The code that deals with SMS has been obfuscated/removed from being seen.”]

Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2016/09/mobile-menace-monday-fake-av-makes-it-onto-google-play/

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