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Anthony Spadafora

Google just took down 224 malicious apps with 38 million installs in massive SlopAds fraud campaign — how to stay safe

Android malware on phone.

Bad apps can be hiding in the place you least expect and that’s exactly what happened with 224 malicious apps that were recently removed from the Google Play Store following the discovery of a massive ad fraud campaign.

As reported by BleepingComputer, the campaign itself was discovered by Human’s Satori Threat Intelligence team which revealed in a new report that these apps had over 38 million downloads in total. However, it was the advanced tricks and obfuscation techniques they used to bypass Google’s defenses that really stood out.

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