{"id":2955,"date":"2019-03-08T04:13:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T10:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com?p=2955&preview=true&preview_id=2955"},"modified":"2019-03-02T04:02:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T10:02:24","slug":"google-removes-13-apps-from-their-play-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/business\/google-removes-13-apps-from-their-play-store-20190308","title":{"rendered":"Google Removes 13 Apps From Their Play Store"},"content":{"rendered":"
Last week, on Thanksgiving weekend, Google removed thirteen apps from the Google Play store that were infected with malware. All of the apps were assorted racing apps added by Luiz O. Pinto.<\/p>\n
Over 1.4 million people use Android, claiming that it’s better than the more popular iOS platform run by Apple that has over 500 million users. So far the claims of Android users are questionable (is Android really superior to Apple anyway?) but the incident that happened in November might be what the world needs to stop sitting on the fence when it comes to Android versus iOS.<\/p>\n
\nDon’t install these apps from Google Play – it’s malware.<\/p>\n
Details:
\n-13 apps
\n-all together 560,000+ installs
\n-after launch, hide itself icon
\n-downloads additional APK and makes user install it (unavailable now)
\n-2 apps are #Trending<\/a>
\n-no legitimate functionality
\n-reported pic.twitter.com\/1WDqrCPWFo<\/a><\/p>\n\u2014 Lukas Stefanko (@LukasStefanko) November 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n