Quick Heal reports 29 malicious apps with 10 million+ downloads on Google Play Store

guest · Sep 24, 2019

Quick Heal reports 29 malicious apps with 10 million+ downloads on Google Play Store
September 24, 2019
https://blogs.quickheal.com/quick-h...-apps-10-million-downloads-google-play-store/

Quick Heal Security Labs reported 29 malicious apps found on Google Play Store, which have a collective download count of more than 10 Millions. Google was quick enough to remove these malicious apps from Play Store immediately. One of the Apps from this set, named “Multiapp multiple accounts simultaneously” has crossed 5 million installs already.

From this set of 29 malicious Apps, 24 are from HiddAd category. The HiddAd Apps hide their icon after first launch and create shortcut on Home Screen. Clear purpose of this action is that users should not be able to uninstall it by just dragging the icon.
The remaining 5 Apps from above list are of Adware category and would generally get into your Android phones through advertisements.
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