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Five years ago, researchers made a grim discovery\u2014a legitimate Android app in the Google Play market that was surreptitiously made malicious<\/a> by a library the developers used to earn advertising revenue. With that, the app was infected with code that caused 100 million infected devices to connect to attacker-controlled servers and download secret payloads.<\/p>\n

Now, history is repeating itself. Researchers from the same Moscow, Russia-based security firm reported Monday<\/a> that they found two new apps, downloaded from Play 11 million times, that were infected with the same malware family. The researchers, from Kaspersky, believe a malicious software developer kit for integrating advertising capabilities is once again responsible.<\/p>\n

Clever tradecraft<\/h2>\n

Software developer kits, better known as SDKs, are apps that provide developers with frameworks that can greatly speed up the app-creation process by streamlining repetitive tasks. An unverified SDK module incorporated into the apps ostensibly supported the display of ads. Behind the scenes, it provided a host of advanced methods for stealthy communication with malicious servers, where the apps would upload user data and download malicious code that could be executed and updated at any time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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