CYBERSECURITY: 22 apps with 2 million+ Google Play downloads had a malicious backdoor. “Device-draining downloader used for ad fraud could have recovered other malicious files.”
via arstechnica: The 22 rogue titles included Sparkle Flashlight, a flashlight app that had been downloaded more than 1 million times since it entered Google Play sometime in 2016 or 2017, antivirus provider Sophos said in a blog post published Thursday. …