’30 .000 Infected apps on Google Play ‘- Telegraaf.nl

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Researchers at the University of Indiana have a special tool within a short period 30 000 infected apps in Google Play, found the official appwinkel Google. MassVet, as the scanner is called, can scan at a rapid pace hundreds of thousands of apps

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MassVet analyzes the apps do not. They are compared with applications already present in appwinkels. According to the researchers, most malware is in fact repackaged apps. These are existing applications which are manipulated by malicious persons and are equipped in this way with malware.

MassVet analyzed 400 000 apps on Google Play. Of those, 30 000 (7.6 per cent of the offer) infected. According to the researchers, this differs with figures of Google. According to the Internet giant was Android Users who only apps from Google Play installed on less than 0.15 percent of the aircraft detected a potentially dangerous application.

VirusTotal

The researchers have tested MassVet total of 1.2 million apps in 33 different markets. The scanner proved to apps within 10 seconds, assess and outperforming over 54 virus scanners on VirusTotal. Of the 1.2 million verified apps there were about 127 000 malicious. Moreover, most virus scanners on VirusTotal appeared 34 000 apps with malware not even have recognized as such. Some of the apps with malware proved quite popular and millions of times to be installed.

Users of Chinese marketplaces are most likely to win an Android malware infected app. The overview is incidentally also mentioned the store of Opera. Here, 7.8 percent of apps called malignant

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