Spammers push cloned apps on Android Market
No stone is left unturned, no option unexplored when it comes to online spamming, and the latest approach has shown that malware authors are not the only ones who have taken advantage of the fact that Android apps are written in Java and are, therefore, easily cloned.
"We've been seeing a rash of repackaged applications posted on the official Android Market," says an F-Secure researcher. "The repackaged application has the same modules as the original, but includes an advertisement module."
He says that most of the spotted repackaged apps don't have any malicious code in them, and they are all made available for download for free. This means that the "developers" of these apps must make money off the clicks on the advertisements.
