The Android platform and even Google’s Play Store app market have been criticized for being less secure, especialy in comparison to Apple’s iOS ecosystem.
The Android platform and even Google’s Play Store app market have been criticized for being less secure, especialy in comparison to Apple’s iOS ecosystem. Almost every week we hear of a new malware that creeps into Google Play Store, threatening to compromise smartphones and their owners. And while Google is swift to act on removing those errant apps, sometimes it’s often too late save thousands if not millions of already compromised devices that have already downloaded the infected apps.
In this case, the adware nicknamed “SimBad” was identified to be in around 206 apps on Google Play Store, most of them simulation type games, hence the name.
