Researchers associated with ESET, a cybersecurity research company, have uncovered the latest variant of a scheme we’ve been reporting on different iterations of for a while now. It’s the latest batch of adware-infected Android apps to have been discovered lurking in the Google Play Store — a total of 42, all of which seem to have since been booted from Google’s app marketplace. But not, of course, before racking up millions of downloads.
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Yet again, adware-infected Android apps rack up millions of Google Play Store downloads originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 21:07:37 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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