New MagicAd Android Malware Floods Devices With Ads Bypassing Restrictions

2026-06-10

Researchers have uncovered a new Android malware dubbed MagicAd that bypasses OS protections to flood the user's device with ads. The malware was hiding in more than 50 trojanized games on the Xiaomi and other app stores. Once installed, the malware uses a task scheduler to continuously restart its background service to continuously send messages to built-in apps to display the ads as banners.