Over 100 million Android users at risk

The VPNpro team detected malware from a Chinese manufacturer and marked it as spyware. According to experts, the media application is quite popular, and more than 100 million Android-based users may be in danger. As you know, the latest build of Android received a system update that monitors the security of the device. This technology includes monitoring applications that require many permissions to install. But, unfortunately, not all applications request so many permissions. for my own work. Thus, the VPNpro team was able to detect that the malicious application was requesting potentially dangerous permissions. VPNpro noted that these applications have a hidden malicious remote access trojan. An interesting fact is that these applications are now publicly available on Google Play, and they are published by the Chinese developer and his clones. Behind all these is the Chinese developer QuVideo Inc., which is based in Hangzhou. And he is known for his VivaVideo application, this application is very popular and offers its services for free, it has already been downloaded more than 100 million times. It is also interesting that VivaVideo is on the list of 40 applications that the Indian government called “spyware” and “malicious” back in 2017. And military personnel in India, by order of the government, immediately removed these applications from their devices.
А опасно VivaVideo тем, что оно собирает данные о вашем местоположении и делает это 14 000 раз на день, даже если вы им особо не пользуетесь. Ещё одно немало интересное приложение - это VivaVideo VidStatus, которое запрашивает разрешение на отправку ваших GPS-координат, доступ к контактам и даже разрешение на возможность выполнять вызовы. VivaVideo VidStatus уже успели скачать около 50 миллионов раз. Данное приложение было помечено Microsoft, как потенциально опасное, имеющее троян AndroRat. Данный троян способен украсть ваши банковские данные, криптовалюту или даже средства с PayPal. Приложения от разработчика QuVideo есть и на базе iOS, но, к счастью, они не имею такого большего количества разрешений.