Over 300 malicious applications displaying intrusive full-screen interstitial video ads amassed more than 60 million downloads on Google Play.
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The Necro trojan was found in two Android applications in Google Play with a combined downloads count of over 11 million.
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Five Android applications containing the Mandrake spyware have been downloaded over 32,000 times from Google Play since 2022.
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Researchers can earn as much as $450,000 for a single vulnerability report as Google boosts its mobile vulnerability rewards program.
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In 2023, Google said it blocked 2.28 million bad applications from being published on Google Play and banned 333,000 developer accounts.
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Human Security identifies 28 VPN applications for Android and an SDK that turn devices into proxies.
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