TrendMicro has discovered 36 apps in Google Play that execute unwanted behavior:
These apps posed as useful security tools under the names Security Defender, Security Keeper, Smart Security, Advanced Boost, and more. They also advertised a variety of capabilities: scanning, cleaning junk, saving battery, cooling the CPU, locking apps, as well as message security, WiFi security, and so on.
The apps were actually able to perform these simple tasks, but they also secretly harvested user data, tracked user location, and aggressively pushed advertisements.
The apps in question have been removed from Google Play.
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(Score: 2) by lentilla on Saturday January 06 2018, @12:56AM
Yes and no - rather depends on your goals and values. The main difference between v2 and v3 are the anti-Tivoization clauses. Others will be able to explain this much more eloquently than I am able in a short post.