Security News > 2017 > August > Over 500 Android Apps On Google Play Store Found Spying On 100 Million Users (The Hackers News)
2017-08-23 02:32
Over 500 different Android apps that have been downloaded more than 100 million times from the official Google Play Store found to be infected with a malicious ad library that secretly distributes spyware to users and can perform dangerous operations. Since 90 per cent of Android apps is free to download from Google Play Store, advertising is a key revenue source for app developers. For this,
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