Google drops more malware apps from Play Store

Over the years, Google has improved security screening to check on malware-laced apps entering the Android mobile ecosystem. It even forged partnerships with top cyber security firms –ESET, Lookout, and Zimperium to form App Defense Alliance.

And, yet bad actors are managing to sneak into Google Play Store. In the latest instance, McAfee’s Mobile Research Team has detected around a dozen malicious Android apps.

All the apps masqueraded as storage cleaner service providers and promised to improve the performance of the device and also reduce battery drain, but never performed the functions.