Popular Google Play Store apps may be compromising your privacy, says study

The researchers found that almost nine per cent of the popular apps interacted with malicious URLs, implicated in distribution of malware.
Almost 9 per cent of popular apps downloaded from Google Play interact with websites that could compromise users’ security and privacy, according to a new study.
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) conducted a large-scale analysis of URLs embedded in 13,500 free android apps downloaded from Google Play, in one of the first stud