Hackers are always cooking up new ways to get their malicious apps onto your smartphone. The latest tool in their arsenal is a new type of Android malware that can conceal itself from the best antivirus apps by using a novel anti-analysis method for Android Package, or APK, files.
That's according to recent findings from Zimperium, a mobile security firm dedicated to identifying and eliminating malware from the Google Play store. APKs are package files used to install and distribute apps across Google's mobile ecosystem. These malicious files resist decompilation (a.k.a. the process antivirus software uses to flag suspicious code) by using unsupported or heavily manipulated compression algorithms.
