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GOOGLE REMOVES 85 APPS FROM PLAY STORE THAT WERE HIDING ADWARE INSIDE

by Mohammad Owais
July 13, 2019
in Apps, How To, News, Smartphones
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GOOGLE REMOVES 85 APPS FROM PLAY STORE THAT WERE HIDING ADWARE INSIDE

Security researchers at Trend Micro discovered eighty five apps on Play Store that have been hiding spyware inside them. Google used to be knowledgeable about these infected apps and has considering that removed them.

“We discovered some other instance of adware’s workable real-life influence on Google Play. Trend Micro detects this as AndroidOS_Hidenad.HRXH. Apart from exhibiting advertisements that are difficult to close, it employs unique techniques to ward off detection thru consumer behavior and time-based triggers,” Ecular Xu, cellular hazard response engineer at

Researchers revealed that a majority of these contaminated apps were posing as pictures as properly as gaming apps and had been downloaded over eight million times.

Super Selfie, Cos Camera, Pop Camera, and One Stroke Line Puzzle were the most famous amongst the complete 85 apps that were observed through researchers as being adware-infected.

The report by way of the researchers said that all these apps had been uploaded on the platform by using different developer bills and had been signed by using exclusive digital certificates, however, they all exhibited comparable behavior and shared the identical code.

But before you panic, researchers at Trend Micro additionally pointed out that this spy ware ought to ideally solely have an effect on phones jogging older variations of Android.

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