
Malicious Flashlight Apps on Google Play

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Check Point researchers have detected a new type of adware roaming Google Play, the official app store of Google. The suspicious scripts override the user’s decision to disable ads showing outside of a legitimate context, and then, in many of the apps, hides its icon to hinder efforts to remove it. This is a purely […]
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