Over the course of 2 months, while the FlixOnline app was available in the Google Play Store, it was downloaded about 500 times before Google removed it upon being notified by Check Point Research.

Cybersecurity researchers from Bitdefender, who also credited IAS Threat Lab, said they discovered at least 331 apps that were available via the Google Play Store which, cumulatively, amassed more ...

Security reserachers say some of these apps like AquaTracker, ClickSave Downloader and Scan Hawk each had more than 1 million downloads.

Google confirmed detecting and deleting five North Korean spy apps from its Play Store. The news comes from Forbes, which reported that search engine company has removed the “identified apps ...

Several VPN apps have reportedly been removed from the Google Play Store and Apple's App Store in India, marking the first crackdown since the government issued rules in 2022, requiring VPN ...

Most of the applications first became active on Google Play in Q3 2024. Silviu Stahie ... adapting their methods as their tactics are discovered and apps removed from the store. The attackers were ...

According to AppCentroship's latest data, Google received 212 VPN blocking orders between March and April 2025. Among these, however, only 6 apps appeared to have been removed so far, bringing the ...

"Between April 2021 and July 2022, Google also reviewed approximately 3,500 to 4,000 loan lending apps and suspended or removed over 2,500 fraudulent loan apps from its Play Store," she said.

Although all of these apps have since been removed from Google Play, there's a significant risk ... each pushing only a few to the store, so as not to risk high disruption in case of takedowns.

TikTok has been hidden from search results in the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store. The popular social media app has been banned by the Indian government along with 58 other Chinese apps.