A new month, a new software malicioso case has been discovered on Google plus Play. Before the beginning of September, we already had to report the discovery of 1.5 million aplicaciones fueling the battery and data consumption of thousands of devices promotional elementos. Now it’s time to proceed with the charge even more malicious aplicaciones available in the Android aplicación store.
It is the person who is responsible for bringing the information to light Security expert Lukas Stefanko from ESET. It highlights its existence in its monthly Android security roundup for September 172 malicious aplicaciones in totalmore than 335 million installations in total.
More than 172 dangerous Android aplicaciones were detected on Google plus Play in September
The report breaks that down various threats found for the 30 days of September. Dangerous applications are categorized according to the type of software malicioso they contain, with the adware type having a total of 48 requests with more than 300 million downloads. unfortunately, any published list with the names of the aplicaciones concerned.
It also emphasizes being there Premium subscription scam aplicacionesbecause even though they only get 15 applications, they accumulate more than 20 million installs.
Luckily, as the expert showed The next web, Most aplicaciones have already been removed from the store.
Although the numbers are alarming, the truth is so Progress seems conveniente, at least in terms of the number of malicious aplicaciones found on Google plus Play. In July acc Details by Stefanko himselfa total of 205 malicious aplicaciones were reported to Google plus. However, the number of installs was much lower, totaling 32,471,100.
As always, our recommendation is not to fall into the trap of this type of threat use common senseOnly download aplicaciones from trusted developers and avoid those that look like it at all costs clones from other more common instruments. We also recommend reading our complete guide to Android security.