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Phoney Android security apps in Google Play Store found distributing malware, tracking users

Phoney Android security apps in Google Play Store found distributing malware, tracking users

January 5, 2018

Via: ZDnet
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Smartphone users download security applications to help protect their device and data from cyber attacks and hackers.

But attackers can also exploit for their own ends, as demonstrated by a total of 36 phoney security tools discovered in the Google Play store for Android which instead of protecting the user, served up malware, adware and even tracked the location of the device.

Uncovered by researchers at Trend Micro, various apps advertised themselves as providing security and other useful capabilities including cleaning junk files, saving battery and more.

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