A team of ESET researchers has detected a large adware campaign running for about a year, with the involved apps installed eight million times from Google Play alone.
According to a post on welivesecurity.com, 42 apps on Google Play were identified as belonging to the campaign, which had been running since July 2018. Of those, 21 were still available at the time of discovery.
The team has reported the apps to the Google security team, & were swiftly removed. But the apps were still available in 3rd-party app stores. ESET detected this adware, collectively, as Android/AdDisplay.Ashas.
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