Google Play’s malicious app problem infects 1.7 million more devices

Enlarge (credit: portal gda / Flickr) Google Play, the company’s official repository for Android apps, has once again been caught hosting fraudulent and potentially malicious apps, with the discovery of more than 56 apps—many of them for children—that were installed on almost 1.7 million devices. Tekya is a family of malware that generates… Read entire story.

Source: Ars Technica