Some of them are “feral apps:” apps you download off of the internet and sideload onto your mobile device. That’s down 20% from last year - which is good - but is still high. RiskIQ counted almost 172,000 apps on its blacklist for the last year. ![]() Getting apps elsewhere is much more dangerous, of course. That said, there were still 25,647 apps on Google Play that the company blacklisted due to risky, dangerous, or fraudulent code. Google’s improvements are starting to have significant impact as well: the number of blacklisted apps in the Play store dropped an impressive 76.4% in 2019, RiskIQ says. ![]() Especially Apple which has always locked down the App Store tightly, and increasingly Google as well, which recently banned multiple apps from Google Play due to allegedly fraudulent ad practices.Īpple treats its App Store like Fort Knox and rarely hosts dangerous apps. In addition, what Apple and Google are really good at is ensuring the apps on their platforms are high quality and safe. In essence, they’re niche impact at best, in most cases.
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