Security News > 2020 > October > Google Boots 21 Bogus Gaming Apps from Play Marketplace
Researchers have discovered a raft of malicious gaming apps on Google Play that come loaded with adware, signaling that the tech giant continues to struggle with keeping bad apps off its online marketplace.
Among these endeavors include stronger vetting mechanisms-which resulted in more than 790,000 apps that violate Google's policies for app submission stopped last year before they were ever published-as well as an alliance with three endpoint security firms to help stop malicious apps before they get to Google Play.
In January, Google said it removed 17,000 Android apps to date from the Play store that have been conduits for the Joker spyware.
In early September, the company deleted six apps from its Google Play marketplace that were infecting users with Joker and had accounted for nearly 200,000 installs.
Later in the month, researchers revealed that they found more than 300 apps on the Google Play Store breaking basic cryptography code rules, demonstrating how easy it is even for popular and seemingly legitimate apps on the marketplace to create security risks.