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Anthony Spadafora

Over 60,000 compromised Android apps found spreading adware — how to stay safe

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More than 60,000 Android apps posing as legitimate software have been secretly infecting the devices of unsuspecting users with adware over the course of the last six months.

As reported by BleepingComputer, the discovery of these new adware apps was made by the cybersecurity firm Bitdefender who found them after adding a new anomaly detection feature to its mobile antivirus app, Bitdefender Mobile Security.

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