Friday 25 October 2019
Apple and Google have cumulatively removed over 50 apps from their respective mobile app stores that were found serving malicious ads to millions of users. The findings were were disclosed separately by London-based mobile security firm Wandera and Slovakian security solutions provider ESET. Disruptive ad behavior ESET found at least 42 Android apps that were available on the Google Play store, which contained a new strain of adware called Ashas. The apps, installed more than eight million times since they first debuted in July 2018, have been traced back to a Vietnamese university student in Hanoi. Once installed, the app didn’t…
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