Security News > 2019 > April > Google Makes it Tough for Rogue App Developers Get Back on Android Play Store
2019-04-16 12:18
Even after Google's security oversight over its already-huge Android ecosystem has evolved over the years, malware apps still keep coming back to Google Play Store. Sometimes just reposting an already detected malware app from a newly created Play Store account, or using other developers' existing accounts, is enough for 'bad-faith' developers to trick the Play Store into distributing unsafe
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