Hundreds of malicious Android apps with 60 million downloads found spamming Android users with ads and stealing credentials

You can never be too careful when downloading new apps to one of the best Android phones. Case in point: Bitdefender has ...
HotHardware

Google Removes Hundreds Of Android Apps From Play Store To Disrupt Massive AI SlopAds Ad Campaign

The Satori Threat Intelligence and Research Team at Human Security have discovered an ad and click fraud campaign dubbed SlopAds. The operation resulted in over 224 apps that have been downloaded 38 ...
Bleeping Computer

Google nukes 224 Android malware apps behind massive ad fraud campaign

A massive Android ad fraud operation dubbed "SlopAds" was disrupted after 224 malicious applications on Google Play were used to generate 2.3 billion ad requests per day. The ad fraud campaign was ...
Yahoo

Federal judge orders Google to open its Android app store to competition

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Monday ordered Google to tear down the digital walls shielding its Android app store from competition as punishment for maintaining an illegal monopoly that ...
Android Authority

Amazon pulls the plug on its Android app store that you never used anyway

Amazon will shut down its Android device app store in August 2025. Users will no longer be able to download or use apps from the Appstore on Android after the deadline. Amazon Fire devices like the ...
HotHardware

Amazon's App Store On Android Is Closing: When And What You Need To Know

Amazon announced it is shutting down its 'Amazon Appstore for Android' this summer as part of a broader effort to streamline and improve its services and programs. The app store was never nearly as ...