PromptSpy Malware: Because Your Phone Wasn’t Fucked Enough Already

Oh brilliant. Just what the world fucking needed—another Android malware with delusions of grandeur. This one’s called “PromptSpy,” and it’s romancing Google’s Gemini AI like a desperate Tinder date, using artificial intelligence to automate its persistence through the recent-apps screen. Translation: it won’t fucking die.

Here’s how these shitweasels operate: They’ve weaponized Gemini to generate system prompts so convincing that Android basically rolls out the red carpet and offers to suck their digital dicks. Every time you try to kill the app—swipe it away like the turd it is—this malware auto-resurrects itself using AI-generated bullshit commands. It’s persistence on steroids, like herpes combined with a fucking terminator.

The genius part? It hijacks your recent-apps view—that place where you keep 47 Chrome tabs and that porn app you think I don’t know about. While you’re busy forgetting to close apps like a complete muppet, PromptSpy is whispering sweet nothings to your OS, convincing it that it’s a critical system component. “Oh no, don’t close me, I’m totally the legitimate Google Play Services, honest!” Spoiler: it’s lying its arse off.

What does it actually steal? Everything. Banking credentials, 2FA codes, your sad little text messages, probably your browser history that you “definitely clear every night.” It’s particularly fond of banking apps because criminals have bills to pay too, and your life savings are apparently funding some bastard’s yacht in the Caymans.

How did it get on your phone? You fucking installed it, obviously. Probably from some sketchy app store that promises “free premium features” or a phishing link your grandma forwarded because it promised her “free Jesus pictures.” The malware comes disguised as productivity apps, cleaners, or whatever other garbage you morons search for when you think “this looks legit” while ignoring seventeen security warnings.

Google’s response is the usual shitshow: “We’re aware and investigating.” Great. Meanwhile, their security team is probably in a meeting deciding what to rename their division this week while the intern frantically Googles “how to fix malware.” A patch will arrive roughly three years after your bank account has been drained and someone’s bought a Lamborghini with your credit score.

Security experts—the eternal optimists—recommend only using official app stores, keeping shit updated, and not clicking suspicious links. Yeah, because users have SUCH a good track record of following advice that requires more than two functioning brain cells. Next they’ll suggest not being a complete fucking liability, which has the same success rate as my patience: zero.

The cherry on this shit sundae? The malware’s code is open-source. Some bright spark thought sharing would be “educational.” Now every fourteen-year-old with a grudge and a keyboard is deploying customized versions against their school, their ex, and probably their own mother. Way to contribute to society, dickhead.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/promptspy-android-malware-abuses-google.html

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Related anecdote: Had a user ring me up in a panic because his phone was “acting weird.” Turns out he’d installed “PromptSpy Remover Pro” from a popup ad. When I explained he’d just paid £9.99 to install a second malware that now had his credit card details, he asked if our IT insurance would cover it. I told him the policy covered Acts of God, not Acts of Stupidity. Then I remotely changed his ringtone to a recording of me laughing and billed his department for “emergency security consultation.” Took my lunch break feeling properly justified.

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