FalseGuide

FalseGuide is a malware recently discovered in Google Play store. Often it is in a form of a game guide; when you install the app it will ask for device admin permission and with this it can manipulate certain data in your android device. FalseGuide works through connecting to Firebase Cloud Messaging service, this where all the malware codes are stored. Hence, the effects of FalseGuide to the android device actually depends on the motive of the developer of this malware. Due to the nature of FalseGuide it perfectly blends with other application who uses cloud services for their application to function. FalseGuide is a powerful malware that infected 2 million android users in a span of five months. Thankfully Check Point which are cyber-security researchers discovered FalseGuide and completely removed any applications associated with this. However, those who already got infected with this malware are still has an active infection of this FalseGuide.