Oh, look: More malware in the Google Play store

A quartet of malware-laden Android apps from a single developer have been caught with malicious code more than once, yet the infected apps remain on Google Play and have collectively been downloaded more than one million times.  The apps come from developer Mobile apps Group, and are infected with the Trojan known as HiddenAds, said security shop Malwarebytes. It analyzed one of Mobile apps Group’s products, Bluetooth Auto Connect, which ostensibly does what its name suggests but also much more.  A run of over ten months with malicious code on Google Play?  Perhaps it’s time to say three strikes and you’re out to Mobile apps Group According to Malwarebytes, once installed the app waits for a few days to start behaving maliciously.

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