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Facebook reveals login credentials of over 1 million users stolen by malic
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], October 8 (ANI): Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has warned its users about hundreds of apps on Apple and Google's app stores that were specifically designed to steal login credentials to the social network app.
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Google Play Store recorded 98 pc decrease in apps accessing SMS data
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
California [USA], Feb 13 (ANI): Google detailed how it took down malicious apps and developers from the Play Store last year in its new security report.
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Google builds App Defense Alliance to fight bad apps
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
California [USA], Nov 7 (ANI): Malicious apps are plaguing app stores and Google wants to fight them better. The search giant announced the launch of App Defense Alliance that will help stop the bad apps from reaching the official app stores.
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Google Play says it rejected 55 per cent more ‘malicious’ apps in 2018
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
California [USA], February 14 (ANI): Soon after reports emerged about malicious developers misusing Apple’s enterprise app policies to release inappropriate apps into the wild, Google Play listed down its own measures in taking care of these rogue apps and developers in the last year.
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Google pulls down 29 malicious Android apps downloaded many times
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
California [USA], February 3 (ANI): Google is repeatedly purging its Play Store from malicious apps, but somehow these scammy apps again find their way into the world. In its latest attempt, Google removed 29 such apps, some of which had been already downloaded millions of times.
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Apple prohibits iOS, Mac apps that engage in cryptocurrency mining
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
California [United States], June 12 (ANI): Due to the growing menace of hackers leveraging your device's processing powers to mine cryptocurrency, Apple has announced a ban on such malicious apps from its App Store.
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