Thousands of Android Malware Apps Use Stealthy APKs to Bypass Security
Threat actors are reportedly exploiting APK files that employ unknown or unsupported compression methods to bypass malware analysis, warned cybersecurity firm Zimperium. The approach hinders decompilation efforts while still enabling installation on Android devices running OS versions above Android 9 Pie. Zimperium found 3,300 instances of this tactic in the wild, with 71 of them being compatible with the operating system