The supply chain attack is a new technique buying applications, along with their software base, and then pushing out updates with malicious code that will likely grow in popularity among cybercriminals, says Nathan Collier, senior malware intelligence analyst at Malwarebytes. Now that this has been done, I can definitely see it happening more in the future, he says. Honestly, for malware developers it s kind of genius that they can just do this let someone else build something, have it on Google Play for years. You are buying the ability to update all of the users to a new version of the app.
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