These days, there are so many scam alerts, hackers trying to sneak malicious apps onto app store platforms, and legitimate-looking apps that turn out to be anything but, that the app stores have >>
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Warning: These Android apps can steal your bank details and take over your phone
Researchers on Tuesday published a serious warning for Android device owners, alerting them to the discovery of eight dangerous apps in the Google Play Store that could have allowed an attacker to take >>
Delete these nasty Android apps that can log in to your Google and Facebook accounts right now
No sooner did we report on Wednesday the presence of a new batch of scammy Android apps that had to be removed from the Google Play Store (but not before racking up some >>
Google is finally cutting down on Android app notification overload
For a few months now, Android users have been taking to Reddit and Google Support forums to question the seeming disappearance of Google Play Store notifications that should have notified them of the >>
Yet again, adware-infected Android apps rack up millions of Google Play Store downloads
Researchers associated with ESET, a cybersecurity research company, have uncovered the latest variant of a scheme we’ve been reporting on different iterations of for a while now. It’s the latest batch of adware-infected >>
Startling investigation finds that simple flashlight apps on Android request up to 77 permissions
Even though a flashlight capability is now native to the latest smartphones, if you search long enough you can still find hundreds of flashlight apps on the Google Play Store. Apps like Ultra >>
The Google Play Store is nagging some users to get rid of old apps
There have been a handful of updates to the Google Play Store’s operation that garnered headlines in recent days, such as the news that apps’ rating calculations will start being more heavily weighted >>
Google bans one of the biggest Android app developers from the Play Store
On the heels of the revelation last week, via a BuzzFeed analysis, that several of the most-downloaded apps from the Google Play Store were caught engaging in a variety of inappropriate practices, we’ve >>
