60,000+ Android Apps Present Risk to User Privacy Through Adware Infestation
Over the last half-year, Bitdefender, a cybersecurity research team, has identified over 60,000 Android applications that contain adware, which poses a considerable danger to users. Adware refers to software that is often bundled with programs such as mobile apps. Its purpose is to generate revenue for malicious actors by displaying advertisements either in the foreground or in the background of the user’s smartphone. Unfortunately, this not only causes you to lose money, it drains your device’s battery and causes it to overheat as well. Interestingly, these malicious apps were not…
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