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in one year, the number of malicious applications has exploded

According to a study carried out in 20 countries in the 1st quarter of 2023, there were nearly 30,000 dangerous applications in circulation on Android, 90% of which are downloaded directly from the Play Store. Another worrying trend is the increase in fraudulent payments via mobile.

We know, the Play store ofAndroid is regularly infected withapplications dangerous, including Trojans and others malware that can slow down a smartphone in the best case, and steal data in the worst case. A trend that has increased during the pandemic related to the Covid-19 with a number of malicious applications that has doubled in one year.

According to data collected by Secure-D, U's anti-fraud platformpstream, for the 1st quarter of 2023, there were 29,000 malicious applications in circulation. Most worrisome is that 9 out of 10 had passed the security Review Google. We also learn that 60% of these applications are focused on leisure and entertainment since they are video players, image editing applications or games.

The SnapTube example

In total, and on the database collected in 20 countries via 31 mobile operators, we learn that more than 11 million smartphones were infected in the 1st quarter, and that nearly 300 million banking transactions have been blocked! This is an increase of 55% in one year and for Secure-D, confinement is one of the reasons. Blocked at health home, users have downloaded more applications, and especially more transactions via their smartphone.

Upstream gives the example of SnapTube, an application which allows you to download videos from social media and sites streaming. Since 2014, when it was launched, it has been downloaded 40 million times, and it was the source of 70 million fraudulent payment attempts in 2019. In just three months, in 2023, Secure-D has already blocked 32 million transactions related to this application.

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