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Android apps with spyware installed 421 million times from Google Play

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May 30, 2023, 2:38 p.m. | Bill Toulas

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A new Android malware distributed as an advertisement SDK has been discovered in multiple apps, many previously on Google Play and collectively downloaded over 400 million times. [...]

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