Security News > 2023 > May > Android apps with spyware installed 421 million times from Google Play
A new Android malware distributed as an advertisement SDK has been discovered in multiple apps, many previously on Google Play and collectively downloaded over 400 million times.
In the background the trojan SDK checks the Android device's sensor data to confirm that it's not running in a sandboxed environment, commonly used by researchers when analyzing potentially malicious Android apps.
All but one of the above apps have been removed from Google Play, indicating that Google received reports about the malicious SDK and removed the offending apps until the developers submitted a clean version.
If you use any of the apps listed above, you should update to the latest version available via Google Play, which should be clean.
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