The report with Check Point Programming Innovations said the malware named Gooligan targets gadgets running Android 4.0 and 5.0, which speak to almost 74 percent of cell phones utilizing the Google-controlled working framework.
The assaults can take email locations and verification information put away on the gadgets to get too delicate information from Gmail, Google Photographs, Google Docs and different administrations, Check Point said.
"This burglary of over a million Google account subtle elements are exceptionally disturbing and speaks to the following phase of digital assaults," said Michael Shaulov, Check Point's head of portable items.
"We are seeing a move in the methodology of programmers, who are presently focusing on cell phones with a specific end goal to acquire the delicate data that is put away on them."
Check Point said specialists found Gooligan's code in an application a year ago and that another variation showed up in August 2016, influencing somewhere in the range of 13,000 gadgets for every day. Around 57 percent of those gadgets are situated in Asia and around nine percent are in Europe.
"The contamination starts when a client downloads and introduces a Gooligan-tainted application on a defenseless Android gadget, or by tapping on vindictive connections in phishing assault messages," the organization said in an announcement.
Assailants can pick up control over the gadget and create income by deceitfully introducing applications from Google Play and rating them in the interest of the casualty.
Check Point said it reported the subtle elements of the malware to Google, and that the tech mammoth demonstrated it would find a way to secure clients.
Google did not quickly react to an AFP inquiry.
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