"Google Boots 164 Apps from Play Marketplace for Shady Ad Practices"

Researchers at WhiteOps discovered 164 apps that mimic legitimate apps to garner downloads to trick the user into seeing a whole bunch of unexpected ads.  The bad apps that were discovered didn’t cover their tracks once they were downloaded onto a users device.  The researchers reported the bad apps to Google, and Google has removed the 164 apps, which were downloaded a total of 10 million times from the Google Play marketplace.  The researchers recommend that users should block any apps that call ads from activities inside the package com.tdc.adservice.
 

Threapost reports: "Google Boots 164 Apps from Play Marketplace for Shady Ad Practices"