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Breaking: Agent Smith virus hides infests 1.5 crore Android phones

News Nation Bureau 11 July 2019, 04:57 PM

Cyber security solutions provider Check Point has revealed that around 25 million Android devices, including 15 million mobile devices in India, were quietly infected due to a new variant of mobile malware called as 'Agent Smith’. The Israeli cyber security research company Check Point said, “Disguised as a Google-related app, the malware exploits known Android vulnerabilities and automatically replaces installed apps with malicious versions without the users' knowledge or interaction.”

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