Google removes 34 malware-infected apps from Play Store in 'security cleanup'


        Google has been on a perpetual mission to clean up the malware targetted apps in the play store to make the android’s use safe for the Customers. 

        On October 3, Google removed as many as 34 apps with 120,000 downloads that were infected with a malware from its marketplace between July and September. The tech giant issued an advisory to immediately delete these 34 'dangerous' apps. Since February, Google has been on a perpetual mission to clean up the malware targetted apps on the play store to make the android's use safe for the customers. The company removed nearly 600 apps removed from its storefront, according to a release.

         Earlier in 2017, the software firm Google had identified Bread aka Joker carrying out a billing fraud of massive scale via targeting the SMS. In the latest, the malware infected several apps that Google had to pull from the store for the safety of the customers. The malware targeted applications were cleaned from the Play Store since over the last few months as the threat is known to extend to android coding, which it modifies, eventually bypassing the play store's security.

       According to a report by the security researchers at Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point Research, the apps infected with the malware not only breach users' privacy but also allow other harmful malware to download to the device posing risks of cyber fraud. Joker is one of the most prominent malware that recently made it to Google's app marketplace with noticeable coding modifications performed by hackers. While the apps have been taken down, Google advised in a statement to manually uninstall them to remove them permanently from the device.

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