Android malware earned a Chinese hacking group over $500,000 per day

Android malware is a serious issue that affects millions of people, no matter what you hear from Google. It’s one of the reasons the iPhone is still better than Androidafter all these years.

We recently learned about a new type of malicious application can masquerade as WhatsApp, Facebook, and Uber to harm users, and now a new report notes that a trojan-type of Android application has infected millions of users, netting the Chinese group of hackers who developed it about $500,000 per day at one point.

A new report from the Cheetah Mobile Security Research Lab details Hummer, this newly discovered family of malware apps. In the first half of the year, the Hummer trojan infected nearly 1,4 million devices per day – see the following graphic. For the full article click here 

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