Android has a very serious problem at the moment, and the Google company is fighting hard with those who try to exploit the phones with its operating system, but unfortunately it cannot deal with them. More precisely, in September those from Google approved for distribution in the Google Play Store 172 Android applications that were installed over 300 million times on hundreds of millions of phones, even though they contain adware, malware, and more.
Android is mainly affected by adware, over 300 million installations being made for applications of this kind, so somewhere over 80% of the total installations registered from the Google Play Store. After the adware come the Android applications that trick users into paying very high subscriptions for simple functions, some of them reaching several hundred dollars a month, which people lose because Google does not return them.
SERIOUS Android PROBLEM, HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of Phones Affected
Android is also very affected by hidden ads displayed in applications, millions of installations being made for dozens of applications with this problem, they also have serious negative effects on phones. Beyond this point, the impact of malicious Android apps decreases substantially, but the main problem remains, with hundreds of millions of installs for adware apps, which shouldn't happen.
Android Security Monthly Recap #9
Review of harmful apps found on Google Play in September 2019
Summary: 172 apps with over 335,952,400 installshttps://t.co/6plz04x2Ce pic.twitter.com/PfJf4ueBF5
- Lukas Stefanko (@LukasStefanko) October 1, 2019
Android has this report generated only for the month of September, and if we extrapolate and make an estimate for the whole year, then we are talking about billions of installations made for malicious applications. In the case of advertisements, it is about billions upon billions of displays from Android applications and tens of millions of dollars earned annually by those who want to harm phone users, and with whom Google is constantly fighting.
Android has had this problem of malicious applications for several years, and the people from Google manage to reduce their impact every year, but they still have a lot of work to do before they can protect all users.
