New Android spyware infiltrates Google Play Store, report says: Know what you can do to stay safe

A new version of the Android spyware ‘Mandrake’ has been found in five applications. Reportedly, the malware has been downloaded 32,000 times from Google Play, which is Android’s official app store.

Mandrake spyware can perform a wide range of malicious activities, including data collection, screen recording and monitoring, command execution, simulation of user swipes and taps, file management, and app installation. As reported by Kaspersky, Mandrake hides its initial stage in a native library, ‘libopencv_dnn.so,’ which is heavily obfuscated using OLLVM.