Several adware-laced Android apps found on Play store

With more than 2.5 billion active users, Android has a lion’s share of more than 75-percent of the mobile OS platform. Unfortunately, it also attracts cybercriminals to prey on naive Android phone users.

Last month, Google announced a collaboration with top mobile security firms ESET, Lookout, and Zimperium to form App Defense Alliance. It vowed to fight the malware-laced apps entering the Play store, but it looks like the effort is still a work in progress, as more than 100 bad apps with adware have detected.

And as per the estimation is done by the White Ops Threat Intelligence team, adware-laced apps have been installed in more than 4.6 million phones around the world.

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