Zak is a widely recognized expert on surveillance, cyber and the security and privacy risks with AI, big tech, social media and smartphones. He is regularly cited in the media, with appearances on BBC, Sky, NPR, NBC, Channel 4, TF1, ITV and Fox. Zak has 25-years real-world experience in AI, cyber and surveillance.
Despite Google’s best efforts, its Play Store problem persists. A new report has just exposed a vast network of more than 250 “evil twin” applications on the official Android store, acting as decoys for malicious non Play Store duplicates., and explains that “one evil twin version is distributed via malvertising and malicious downloads and performs ad fraud,” while shielded by its harmless Play Store duplicate.
I have approached Google for comment on this new report, but HUMAN assures that Google Protect can now identify these evil twin apps.
But at the same time a scan of the list of Play Store apps shows yet again that even the most trivial apps drive installs. This threat campaign required two things to operate successfully: users to install malicious apps outside Play Store, and users to install trivial apps from within Play Store. Both risky and yet both achieved with ease.had been found and removed from Play Store.
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