A steady stream of questionable applications is flowing daily into Google's Play store for Android devices, according to security vendor Symantec.
Over the last seven months, Symantec found more than 1,200 suspicious applications in the Play store. Google removes many shortly after they're published, but others stay in the store for a few days.
"Although they have short lives, the apps must provide ample profit for the scammers as they show no signs of halting their development of new ones," wrote Joji Hamada of Symantec.
The applications can be difficult to assess and employ a series of maneuvers and layers in order to attempt to rip off users.
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