Windows malware: Android app has been known to suffer malware attacks from time to time. Just recently in December, it was reported that a malware called ‘Gooligan’ breached accounts of more than a million users. Now, a bizarre new type of malware has been detected apps in Google Play that has the ability to affect Windows users, according to a security firm.
PAN discovered the malware-ridden apps and reported them to Google to have them removed from Google Playstore. Internet security team in a blog post said that the apps, which were developed by several developer, managed to hide HTML-based iframe tags. The iframe tags, which are generally used to embed external elements in a webpage, like a YouTube video, was also loading elements from malicious domains. In one case, an app didn’t use iframe but Microsoft’s Visual Basic language to load malicious code into the app.