More than 2000 Dangerous Apps Found on Google Play Store

Many apps on Google Play have been found to be harmful to users. Although Google has definitely removed them, the question is why does this happen continuously.
More than 2000 Dangerous Apps Found on Google Play Store

The Google Play Store stays in the discussion day. Most of the reasons for the wrong reasons are news. Apps with dangerous apps, scams, and malware are uploaded to it and cause headaches for users. There is a similar report once again. A study lasted for two years has found that more than 2 thousand apps are harmful on the Google Play Store.

Some of these apps require more permissions, while some of these are completely malware. These reports are in reference to the Data61 of the University of Sydney and CSIRO. It is worth noting that in this research, 10 million Google Play pas has been included. In this research, malware and apps with malware were found in large amounts of Play Store.

Apps that do not require a location also access the location. Such apps have also been found. Location is an example, many apps have been found, those permissions which are not needed are also accessing those apps.

Temple Run and Hill Climb Racing are quite popular games, they are also included in these apps that get more permissions than needed. If we talk about more permissions from your smartphone directly indicates that the developer can break into your data.

Researchers have claimed to resort to neural networks and machine learning to process 10 million applications. This algorithm was designed to identify applications of a kind of desktop design and a type of icon that is similar to the Play Store's 10 thousand popular apps.

Total 7246 applications were marked as dangerous in this research and 2040 of these apps were called Fake and High Risk. 1565 of these apps demand at least five sensitive permissions.

The good news is that these apps have been removed from the App Store, and according to Google, the percentage of the rejection for app submission has now been increased. This means that Up-Company Selective Applications allows to secure Google Play Store

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