It’s happened again. Another batch of apps that exhibit malicious behavior has been found and pulled from the Google Play store — but not before they were downloaded more than 2 million times. That batch, according to a new Ars Technica report, includes 22 titles like the flashlight app Sparkle Flashlight, which was downloaded more than 1 million times over the last year or so. And it follows other recent episodes of this same kind of discovery, such as the one we told you about recently that involved Google pulling 13 apps that install malware on user devices and had been downloaded over 500,000 times.
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Google pulled a batch of malicious apps with more than 2M downloads from the Play store originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 18:28:16 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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