Security researchers have warned that malicious apps with millions of installs have been detected in the Google Play Store. Here’s what you need to know.

Threat intelligence researchers at Zscaler, a popular cloud security company, have identified more than 200 malicious applications distributed via the

We’ve all made the mistake of downloading some useless apps at one point or another, but there used to be a degree of certainty that the fake beer drinking app or the wild west sound effect buttons wouldn’t turn out to be spyware - as long as you got it directly from the App store.

Google Play, the official store for Android, distributed over a period of one year more than 200 malicious applications, which cumulatively counted nearly eight million downloads.

The security vendor discovered over 200 malicious apps in the period on Google Play, which is nominally a safer platform for Android downloads than third-party app stores. These apps collectively garnered more than eight million installs.