Google has removed 17,000 Android apps to date from the Play store that have been conduits for the Joker malware (a.k.a. Bread) – and in an analysis of the code, said that Joker’s operators have “at some point used just about every cloaking and obfuscation technique under the sun in an attempt to go undetected.” That variety and trial-and-error approach works well for Joker, given the sheer volume of variants and fake apps that are pitted against Play store defenses.

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