The network of apps targeted popular services and were downloaded by millions before being removed from Google’s Play store.
with tens of millions of downloads after allegations the apps were part of a co-ordinated group that may have violated store policies.CyberNewsMost of the apps are simple ones focusing on things like scanning PDFs and making photo collages, likely deliberately chosen because they provide sought after services people want quickly and are likely to download them without thinking too hard about it.
But the apps don’t appear to require much work to make and publish on the Google Play Store, which is what initially raised the suspicions of the researchers, after discovering links between different developers.The app developers mostly have a first name-last name style developer name usually featuring Western-style names, which might seem like a tenuous link at first, but it goes deeper.
Suspiciously, the name of some of the apps on the Play Store also changed names after being installed.
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