- Joker malware’s presence has been seen in 37 countries, with India as one of the affected countries.
- The malware was able to secretly sign people up to premium subscription services.
- It can also steal SMS messages, contacts, and gather device information such as the serial and IMEI numbers.
Infected Android apps are as follows :
- Advocate Wallpaper
- Age Face
- Altar Message
- Antivirus Security – Security Scan
- Beach Camera
- Board picture editing
- Certain Wallpaper
- Climate SMS
- Collate Face Scanner
- Cute Camera
- Dazzle Wallpaper
- Declare Message
- Display Camera
- Great VPN
- Humour Camera
- Ignite Clean
- Leaf Face Scanner
- Mini Camera
- Print Plant scan
- Rapid Face Scanner
- Reward Clean
- Ruddy SMS
- Soby Camera
- Spark Wallpaper
Hence, if you happen to find anyone of these apps in the Play Store, you should immediately uninstall it from your phone. And apart from removing it from your phone, you should also perform a full factory reset on your device to get rid of any other malicious content it leaves on your device.
joker malware’s presence has been seen in 37 countries, with India as one of the countries to be largely affected. Other countries include Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Honduras, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Kuwait, Malaysia, Myanmar, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Argentina, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and United States.