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Google Play-distributed Joker variants can turn infected Android phones into proxy exit nodes.
Affects
Android.Joker, a family of trojanized Android applications distributed through Google Play and other app channels.
The victim must install and run a trojanized Android application.
Detail and 1 source
The newly reported module relays third-party traffic through the handset, giving its operator the victim’s mobile network identity as an exit point.
The capability change is the addition of proxy egress to variants that were distributed through Google Play.