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Android InsecurityPreview:
Last year Google removed over 1 million malicious apps from their play store. This indicates a significant problem. If they are missing or just haven't found 1% of the malicious apps, then we can assume there are over a thousand in the store today. How can you protect yourself? Google is constantly scanning their store for malicious apps, and removed over 1 million last year. However, their scanner app isn't that good. Furthermore, even though Google provides security updates for the Android system monthly, to plug known vulnerabilities, most new phones only get updated quarterly (if that) and older ones not at all.
Trend Micro recently issued a report where it looked for a single type of malicious software called "Face Stealers". These are usually exercise apps, or photo editing apps that steal your Facebook credentials. They could be any app, not just those two types. Trend Micro found 200 such apps in the Play Store. They also found other malicious apps doing other nefarious things. Google cannot keep up with the torrent of malicious apps being submitted. So, what do you do?
What do you do?
Be careful out there. The Internet is a dangerous place.
Date: July 2022
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