By SecurityWeek News on November 11, 2015
Most of the top 200 and top 100 applications available for Android users via the Google Play store can be decompiled and reverse engineered, a new report from mobile application security solutions provider SEWORKS claims.
According to the security company, 85 percent of the top 200 most popular free applications in the official Android marketplace can be decompiled, and the same applies to 83 of the top 100 paid apps in the store. Since the process is used to reverse engineer software to expose the source code, these applications can become easy targets for exploits, including malware injection and ad fraud.
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Majority of Top Android Apps Easily Reverse Engineered: Report
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