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Android users should delete these 15 Google Play Store apps right now @ 2019-10-17T08: 返回 新闻热点
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IT THEN REDIRECTS YOU TO GOOGLE MAPS ON THE PLAY STORE, LEADING USERS TO BELIEVE THAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PROGRAMME CRASH.
ONCE INSTALLED, THE APPS USE INNOCUOUS NAMES TO ENSURE THEY DON’T TRIGGER SUSPICIONS. AND, ARGUABLY, THE MOST WORRYING FINDING IS THAT ALL 15 APPS APPEARED THIS YEAR—THAT MEANS THERE ARE STILL GAPING HOLES IN PLAY STORE SECURITY AND THERE ARE ADWARE FACTORIES CHURNING OUT SUCH APPS AND PUSHING THEM INTO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. SOPHOS BELIEVES THAT SIMILARITIES IN CODING STRUCTURE AND USER INTERFACES SUGGESTS THIS BATCH OF APPS MIGHT ALL BE RELATED, DESPITE APPEARING TO COME FROM DIFFERENT PUBLISHERS.
WHAT BRINGS THIS UP IS A REPORT FROM BRITISH SECURITY FIRM SOPHOS ABOUT 15 ANDROID APPS ORIGINALLY FOUND IN THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE THAT PLAY ADS ON YOUR DEVICE. THIS PRODUCES REVENUE FOR THE BAD ACTORS, AND WITH THESE APP"S ICONS DISAPPEARING AFTER BEING INSTALLED, THEY BECOME ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO DELETE. SOME WILL EVEN CHANGE THEIR IDENTITY TO FOOL A DEVICE OWNER. AT THE LEAST, 1.3 MILLION PHONES HAVE INSTALLED AT LEAST ONE OF THESE APPS. ONE TITLE, FLASH ON CALLS & MESSAGES, WAS INSTALLED OVER 1 MILLION TIMES ALONE. MANY OF THESE APPS WERE JUST PUBLISHED IN THE PLAY STORE AS RECENTLY AS JULY.
ATTENTION EVERYONE’ YOU NEED TO DELETE THE ‘FLEECEWARE’ APPS BEFORE YOU BECOME ANOTHER VICTIM OF ITS FRAUD AND LOSE A FORTUNE. ACCORDING TO A NEW REPORT, MORE THAN 24 APPS ON THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE HAVE RECENTLY FOUND A LOOPHOLE AND ARE CHARGING USERS WITH HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS WHO FAIL TO CANCEL THEIR FREE TRIAL AND THE WORST PART, YOU CAN STILL BE CHARGED WITH THE FEE EVEN THOUGH YOU UNINSTALL THE APPS BEFORE THE END OF THE TRIAL.
ANDROID USERS, YOU NEED TO BE CAREFUL WHILE DOWNLOADING RANDOM APPS FROM GOOGLE PLAY. THIS IS BECAUSE APPS WHICH HAVE OFFICIALLY ENTERED THE STORE AFTER VALIDATION FROM GOOGLE AND IS NOW TURNING ROGUE. RECENTLY, A POPULAR APP CALLED CAMSCANNER WAS CAUGHT FOR SHIPPING WITH AN ADVERTISING LIBRARY CONTAINING A MALICIOUS MODULE IN A RECENT VERSION AND WAS REMOVED FROM GOOGLE PLAY HOWEVER, DEVELOPERS WERE QUICK TO RESPOND AND THE APP WAS RELAUNCHED ON GOOGLE PLAY VERY SOON AFTER A QUICK FIX. NOW, SIX MORE APPS WITH MALICIOUS INTENT HAVE BEEN FOUND AND GOOGLE HAS REMOVED THEM RECENTLY. THESE APPS HAVE A COMBINED DOWNLOAD OF 500 MILLION.
A GOOGLE SPOKESMAN SAID “THE REVOLUTION OF OUR TIMES” APP RECENTLY PULLED FROM ITS APP STORE, WHICH LETS USERS ROLE PLAY AS HONG KONG PROTESTERS, VIOLATED A LONG-STANDING POLICY “PROHIBITING DEVELOPERS FROM CAPITALIZING ON SENSITIVE EVENTS, SUCH AS ATTEMPTING TO MAKE MONEY FROM SERIOUS ONGOING CONFLICTS OR TRAGEDIES THROUGH A GAME.”
GOOGLE REMOVED TWO APPS FROM THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE THIS WEEK AFTER IT DISCOVERED THEY WERE SERVING ADWARE TO USERS. THE APPS, SUN PRO BEAUTY CAMERA AND FUNNY SWEET BEAUTY SELFIE CAMERA, HAD BEEN DOWNLOADED OVER 1.5 MILLION TIMES,
AS AN AVID PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER FAN, I WAS LITERALLY ASTOUNDED TO SEE PES 2020 ON PLAY STORE. IT LOOKED LIKE THEY CUT THE THREE-DAY MAINTENANCE SHORT. AFTER DOWNLOADING THE UPDATE, IT BECAME EVIDENT THAT THE GAME ISN’T PLAYABLE.
DISABLE FREQUENTLY-VISITED SITES IN SAFARI: SAFARI DISPLAYS ICONS OF YOUR MOST VISITED WEBSITES EVERY TIME YOU OPEN A NEW PAGE. IT LETS YOU DELETE INDIVIDUAL ONES BY TAPPING AND HOLDING ON THEM, BUT NOW YOU CAN TURN THEM OFF ENTIRELY BY GOING TO SETTINGS > SAFARI. FROM THERE, TURN OFF FREQUENTLY VISITED SITES.

 

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