Some mobile apps have found a brilliant way to sneak malware onto your phone

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Developers of malicious mobile apps are arguably some of the most creative people you’ll find — they have to be in order to keep finding ways to sneak their wares past the guardrails of app marketplaces like the Google Play Store and to trick unsuspecting users into downloading them. Meanwhile, a new report about the mobile app malware landscape points to a rising threat that’s among the most creative approaches of all — it’s less of a hassle to convince people your app is legit when you just straight up hide it from appearing on the phone at all, right?

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