Security News > 2017 > August > Android Spyware Linked to Chinese SDK Forces Google to Boot 500 Apps (Threatpost)
2017-08-22 17:28
More than 500 Android mobile apps have been removed from Google Play after it was discovered that an embedded advertising SDK called Igenix could be leveraged to quietly install spyware on devices.
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