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by cheald 4899 days ago
Awful article. It specifically says "apps in the Google Play marketplace", when the sourced article specifically says "more than 7,000 apps downloaded from non-Google-owned stores". It then goes on to list a couple of popular apps, insinuating that the official versions of these very popular apps in the Google Play marketplace are infected, when that is entirely untrue.

People have been taking popular software, wrapping them in malware, and redistributing them in skeevy channels since the dawn of software downloading.