Strange they haven't identified who was responsible yet, I mean to get this code into your app surely the first lead would be the developer right?
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2023
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Link to the source blog entry. It has more information on how the malware went undetected and how it worked.
The key takeaway: never give an app accessibility permissions when it asks unless you are specifically installing an accessibility app. It could never have done anything without that permission.
The McAfee article (found elsewhere in these comments) said the bad apps obtained accessibility permissions through "social engineering" which probably means it simply asked for them after telling you to ignore the serious warnings Android gives you when an app asks for them.