Google Play has removed several apps from its store, some of
them are from Chinese developer named “DU Group” after finding out that these
apps violate certain rules of Google.
After the investigation it was found out that apps from the “DU
Group” abuse user permissions and are involved in ad fraud. These apps used to
draw automatic clicks even when the ads were not running in the background that
causes the battery to drain and consumes more and more data.
According to BuzzFeed news “the fraudulent DU Group apps
were identified after a list of approx. 5000 apps was gathered from the Google
Play and their information was collated. Apps that asked for large number of
user permissions, deemed dangerous by Android were handed over to researchers at
data analysis and security firms.”
DU Group is Chinese app developing company that was spun off
from Baidu and have 1 billion users worldwide. In the research, it was discovered
that some popular apps has been installed more than 50 million times and these
have contains some codes that allows user to automatically click on the ad
without the consent of user.
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