Hackers, website owners or even cybercriminals are finding new ways to use cryptocurrency miners to make easy money by using CPU of unsuspecting users. Last week, it was reported that two cryptocurrency mining malware apps were targeting Android users and now, for the second time in a week researchers have discovered three more malware-infected apps on Google Play Store targeting users to generate Monero coins.

A cryptocurrency miner works in such a way that it uses CPU power of a user’s device while they are visiting a website that is using the mining code, for example, The Pirate Bay and ShowTime’s websites. If the user is on a smartphone, they are targeted by malware-infected apps carrying cryptocurrency mining code which uses their phone’s power to generate digital coins.

The IT security researchers at TrendMicro who discovered these apps noted that “These apps used dynamic JavaScript loading and native code injection to avoid detection.”

One app called Recitiamo Santo Rosario claimed to provide religious content (Catholic), the other one claimed to provide Internet and WiFi safety while the third one was related to car wallpapers. But in reality, all three infected users devices to generate Monero coin.

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