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Fake Android Antivirus 2019 On Play Store Since 2015

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Most Of Android Antivirus Applications Are Rated As Worthless Modern gravity investigation against Anti-virus Android 2019 software in Play Store & by Malware Analyst,  Lukas Stefanko  at ESET exposed the Baboon Antivirus and Android developer that has been active since 2015. These influential Apps stay listed in the section of  Antivirus   for Android- Certain apps last more popular below their divisions with more than 500 thousand installs. Classification & Specialties Pretended Antivirus for Android Mobile Security claims: Shields Android mobile phone or tablet toward  viruses , malware, and spyware they also constitute a limitation from coexisting standards of peril from Viruses &  Trojans . 1. Protection module & characteristics: Security & Antivirus Speed booster Installing & Uninstalling apps Play store & Browser Settings Hide private chats (App Lock) Set System proneness & scan apps, file systems ...

Android app advertising scam – The hard cookie to crack for Google!

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The Internet Giant Google is striving continuously to fight irrational traffic and puts to use several filters & machine leaning models. It further makes collaborations with advertisers, publishers, tech ad companies, law enforcement agencies & other third-party corporations in order to locate & avoid potential threats. Still a recent report bared many popular Android apps that tracked user’s behavior & carried out a tremendous multimillion-dollar ad hoax strategy. A report from BuzzFeed News Investigation exposed around 125 Android apps & websites that have stolen millions of dollars through a forged advertising network. In response to the incident, Google clamped down & blacklisted several apps & websites and tightened its restrictions. Method of Operation of Ad Fraud 1. Scammers from a fake front company “We Purchase Apps” purchased established & legitimate applications on the Google Play Store from the developers. With the purchase, scamm...

Crypt-o-currency Mining Apps banned by Google from the Play Store

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Google has recently updated the Play Store Developer Policy page to prohibit several categories of apps including the ones that mine cryptocurrency on user’s device. Google states that “We don’t allow apps that mine cryptocurrency on devices”. According to newly added policy Google will however continue to “permit apps that remotely manage the mining of cryptocurrency”.  This implies that the crypt-o-currency mining operations that utilize device’s CPU (Central Processing Unit) or GPU (Graphical Processing Unit) will be removed from the official play store. Hence, only those mining apps will be permitted on Google’s official Play Store that control the mining operations on remote devices – such as cloud based mining servers or desktop . Google bans Cryptocurrency mining apps – Reasons behind this act