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Sead Fadilpašić

This wallet-draining Google Play malware has been installed over half a million times - these are the apps to watch out for

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A newly-detected mobile malware family has been sitting in the Google Play Store and raking up mobile bills for hundreds of thousands of people, new findings have said. 

Cybersecurity researchers from Kaspersky recently discovered Fleckpe, which they say was integrated into at least 11 Android apps that have cumulatively been downloaded roughly 620,000 times.

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