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A new strain of mobile malware found on an array of apps can pull out sensitive data – including audio recordings – from Android phones.
The move adds to Google’s efforts against malicious apps on the Play store.
The botnet uses port scanning code from Mirai, a first for Android-related attacks, according to researchers.
In 2017 Google removed apps that violated the Google Play policies because they were malicious, purposely copied a more popular app or served up inappropriate content.
A massive mobile espionage campaign has been collecting troves of sensitive personal information since 2012, according to a new report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and security firm Lookout.
Researchers have discovered Android malware with spy capabilities never seen before such as allowing attackers to capture encrypted WhatsApp chat sessions.
Google removed 22 malicious adware apps ranging from flashlights, call recorders to wifi signal boosters that together were downloaded up to 7.5 million times from the Google Play marketplace.
Intel, Amazon, ARM, Microsoft and others have shared patch updates to keep customers informed on their mitigation efforts to protect against the far reaching Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities impacting computers, servers and mobile devices worldwide. 
Google has ejected 50 apps from its Google Play store that were harboring mobile malware dubbed ExpensiveWall.
Bluetooth attack vector, dubbed ‘BlueBorne’, leaves billions of smart Bluetooth devices open to attack including Android and Apple phones and millions more Linux-based smart devices.