Facebook Ads Promoted Apps With Hiddenads Malware Affects 1M Users
The infected apps hide and promote themselves aggressively on Facebook showing continuous advertisements to victims in a variety of ways. When this malware is installed on the victim’s device, they run malicious services automatically upon installation even without needing any user interaction to open the apps. To promote these apps to new users, the malware authors created advertising pages on Facebook, as it is the link to Google Play distributed through legitimate social media, leaving little margin for doubt for the users....