The AchieVer Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 Malware made it past Google's detection systems and infected some 9 million Android users, analyst Trend Micro has found. Google has removed 85 apps from the Google Play Store as a result. Google's secret to a healthy phone? Remote-controlling your apps READ MORE The apps, purportedly TV and video players and controllers, would consistently show full-screen ads until they crashed. Developers behind such apps then racked up ad impressions from which they profited. The batch of 85 apps removed included the "Easy Universal TV Remote", which had a high proportion of negative reviews but had managed to evade Google's security filters, Trend Micro noted. Take, for example, the app below. At a glance it looks harmless enough... ... but did the comments and ratings not raise a flag? Google claimed to have halved the quantity of Android malware in its first Android Ecosystem Security Transparency Report published in November. But the scale of the ecosystem still means trouble for many. By Google's calculations, only 0.09 per cent of devices accessing the Store had malware on board – but that's still 1.8 million phones. This batch of apps was hard for the user to miss – some adware continues to generate bogus impressions in the background. You can find a full list here (PDF). ® source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stylemessiah Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 Excuse me if i dont take Trend Micro seriously, this is the same company that pays to have its own bloated, and largely ineffective AV product preinstalled on PC's, so a big f#ck you right there... Look at the list of "bad apps" and you'll see that 90% of them are of such bad quality only a numpty would install them int he first place, not a single app on that list would be considered a normal main stream by any Android user, the purpose of the apps would clearly indicate that they were very likely to use user data - certianly all the TV apps that let you view media semi-legally... Such a non-story its laughable Also love the clickbait misleading linked story "Google's secret to a healthy phone? Remote-controlling your apps" Alarmist nonsense, google cannot remove software detected by Google Play Protect, you have to authorise it to do so, unlike Apple... Im starting to think youre an Apple fanboy.... What alarmist nonsense, ive bene using Android since 1.0 and... number of hacks to any device ive owned: 0 number of days lost to malware: 0 number of times ive been forced to upgrade my device because ive been locked out of it by the hardware/OS vendor (unlike how Apple operates): 0 number of times ive had to fix or upgrade Apple devices for people in the same period for the same reasons: countless Next.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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