Security research labels more than 290,000 Google Play Android apps as 'high-risk' [View all]
Source: Network World US
Security vendor Bit9 categorized these Android apps as "questionable" or "suspicious" because they could gain access to personal information to collect GPS data, phone calls or phone numbers and much more after the user granted "permission" to the app. "You have to say 'yes' to the application or it won't run," pointed out Harry Sverdlove, Bit9 CTO.
Games, entertainment and wallpaper apps especially seem to want to grab data, even though the their functions would seem to have little direct use for it.
Bit9 notes this doesn't mean these apps are malware per se, but they could do damage if compromised because the user has granted so much permission.
Read more: http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/mobile-phone/3408388/security-research-labels-more-than-290000-google-play-android-apps-as-high-risk/
That almost half of the apps available for Android.
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