{"id":7932,"date":"2019-06-06T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howk.de\/w1\/google-play-store-apps-with-china-ties-are-bombing-android-users-with-unstable-beitaad-adware\/"},"modified":"2019-06-06T08:00:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T08:00:13","slug":"google-play-store-apps-with-china-ties-are-bombing-android-users-with-unstable-beitaad-adware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howk.de\/?p=7932","title":{"rendered":"Google Play Store Apps With China Ties Are Bombing Android Users With Unstable BeiTaAd Adware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hothardware.com\/news\/google-play-store-adware-apps\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hothardware.com\/ContentImages\/NewsItem\/48313\/thumbnail\/default\/playstporeappth.jpg\" alt=\"Google Play Store Apps With China Ties Are Bombing Android Users With Unstable BeiTaAd Adware\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\"><\/a><br \/>\nGoogle can&#8217;t seem to figure out how to stop nefarious developers from offering apps via Google Play that are filled with malware and adware. In April, word surfaced that apps with ties to a group called DU Group were committing click fraud and amassed over 50 million downloads. A new group of apps with far more downloads with ties to China <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google can&#8217;t seem to figure out how to stop nefarious developers from offering apps via Google Play that are filled with malware and adware. In April, word surfaced that apps with ties to a group called DU Group were committing click fraud and amassed over 50 million downloads. 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