Meanwhile, researchers at the security firm ESET announced in early September that they had found malicious apps from the BankBot malware family in Google Play. Even after Google removed the offenders, Check Point discovered a new sample of the malware in Google Play (which got removed as well) that had quickly racked up more than 5,000 unique downloads. They had cumulatively been downloaded between 1 million and 4.2 million times. Take just last week, when the security firm Check Point discovered a new strain of Android malware called “ExpensiveWall” lurking in about 50 apps in the Play Store. So why, then, has so much malware slipped through lately? Unlike third-party app stores that are generally difficult to vet and validate, Google Play has built-in mechanisms to screen every app for malware, ransomware, and assorted sketchiness. The standard advice for Android users to avoid downloading malicious apps is simple: Only get apps from the official Google Play Store.
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