Quote:As unveiled in a report by SophosLabs' Pankaj Kohli, Google Play is distributing malicious applications posing as games, educational tools or system utilities but use your Android device to mine for cryptocurrency.

Cryptojacking is still a very lucrative business for threat actors because of the small investment and the vast potential gains although most crypto coins have gone through a harsh time lately.
It comes as no surprise that bad actors are still trying their hand at targeting Android devices using apps that stealthily mine for cryptocurrency, while also providing the appearance of a legitimate application to avoid detection.

Kohli details in his report how he found that more than 25 apps with more than 120,000 installs distributed through the Google Play store have been secretly mining for crypto coins using stolen processing power.