Google can take two months to remove malware apps from app store

Technology 12 August 2021

By Chris Stokel-Walker

Potentially risky apps offered successful the Google Play Store tin instrumentality months to beryllium removed

Apps that perchance incorporate malware stay connected the Google Play Store for an mean of 77 days aft being detected, according to an investigation of software.

“The content has been that app markets are doing a large occupation taking down malicious apps, truthful the occupation is fundamentally solved,” says Gianluca Stringhini astatine Boston University. “It’s not arsenic overmuch of a solved occupation arsenic is thought.”

Stringhini and his colleagues astatine antivirus bundle institution Norton monitored …