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Cybercriminals Set Android Apps For Sale for Up to $20K a Piece

Cyber threat actors have lately been targeting the official Google Play app store’s security by developing trojan malwares for existing Android apps, selling the malwares for up to $20,000 a piece on darknet markets. 

In a blog post published on April 10, Kaspersky researchers reported their findings of a thorough analysis of nine of the most well-known Dark Web forums. They discovered a booming market of buyers and sellers exchanging access to botnets, malicious Android applications, and app developer accounts for hundreds of dollars at a time by monitoring activities between 2019 and 2023. 

Some highly valuable products, such as source code that can let a threat actor hack into an existing cryptocurrency or a dating app on Google Play can cost several thousand dollars. 

“It’s an infinite cat and mouse game[…]The attackers find a way to bypass security scanners. Then the people developing the security scanners deploy patches to ensure that doesn’t happen again. Then the attackers find new flaws. And it goes on and on,” says Georgy Kucherin, Kaspersky research with regards to Google’s app security. 

The Marketplace for Google Play Hacks 

Any program that is posted to the Apple or Google app stores undergoes a rigorous inspection.
However, according to the Kaspersky researchers “just like any security solution that exists in the world, it’s not 100% effective[…]Every scanner contains fla

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