BadNews, for Android Users, Now the malware maked up itself as an ad network

Mobile security company Lookout claims to have discovered BadNews, a new malware family that's affecting Android apps.

BadNews masquerades as an innocent, if somewhat aggressive advertising network. This is one of the first times that we've seen a malicious distribution network clearly posing as an ad network.  Because it’s challenging to get malicious bad code into Google play, the authors of Badnews created a malicious advertising network, as a front, that would push malware out to infected devices at a later date in order to pass the app scrutiny.

The following table provides information about each of the 32 identified malicious apps, including high and low download boundaries.

[Image Courtesy: Lookout