TechHive: Fake AdBlock Plus app removed from Google's Play store

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Fake AdBlock Plus app removed from Google's Play store Oct 1st 2013, 04:30, by Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service Google has removed an application from its Play store that purported to be AdBlock Plus, a well-known application that blocks online ads. The bogus application actually delivered more advertisements to users, wrote Dmitry Bestuzhev, who is head of Kaspersky Lab's research and analysis team for Latin America. "This is one of those scenarios where the user looks for protection but only finds problems," Bestuzhev wrote. Google has become more vigilant in keeping malicious applications out of the Play store, but security experts frequently find rogue ones that have slipped in. Security vendor Symantec said in July it had found more than 1,200 suspicious applications in the Play store since the start of the year. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Media files: googleplaygames_primary-100047478-small.jpg

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