Meanwhile, researchers at the security firm ESET announced in early September that they had found malicious apps from the BankBot malware family in Google Play. ![]() Even after Google removed the offenders, Check Point discovered a new sample of the malware in Google Play (which got removed as well) that had quickly racked up more than 5,000 unique downloads. They had cumulatively been downloaded between 1 million and 4.2 million times. Take just last week, when the security firm Check Point discovered a new strain of Android malware called “ExpensiveWall” lurking in about 50 apps in the Play Store. So why, then, has so much malware slipped through lately? ![]() Unlike third-party app stores that are generally difficult to vet and validate, Google Play has built-in mechanisms to screen every app for malware, ransomware, and assorted sketchiness. ![]() The standard advice for Android users to avoid downloading malicious apps is simple: Only get apps from the official Google Play Store.
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