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Adware Posing as 85 Photography and Gaming Apps on Google Play Installed Over 8 Million Times

The mobile platform is ubiquitous — enabling users to make online transactions, run their everyday lives, or even use it in the workplace. It’s no surprise that fraudsters and cybercriminals would want to cash in on it. Delivering adware, for example, enables them to monetize affected devices while attempting to be innocuous. And while they may be viewed as a nuisance at best, mobile ad fraud- and adware-related incidents became so rampant last year that it cost businesses hefty financial losses

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