Chinese Mobile Antivirus App Caught Siphoning User Data

  • 19 September 2017
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19th September 2017  By Catalin Cimpanu
 


 
Google removed — and then reinstated — one of the most popular mobile antivirus apps on the Play Store after security firm Check Point discovered that the app was secretly collecting device data from users' smartphones.
 
The app in question is named DU Antivirus Security and was created by the DU Group, a company part of the Baidu conglomerate.
 
According to the app's Play Store page, between 10 and 50 million users downloaded and installed the app.
 
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My question when can you trust the play store for anything???

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