Google Details ‘Joker’ Malware That Plagued the Play Store, Claims It Removed 1,700 Apps

Traces of ‘Joker’ or ‘Bread’ malware family go back to 2017, wherein it first indulged in SMS fraud and later moved on to toll fraud after Google restricted use of SMS permission. Google claims that they have at some point used just about every cloaking and obfuscation technique under the sun in an attempt to go undetected.