The open source nature of Android and its popularity encourage criminals to produce a large number of malicious programs for this operating system.
Even if malware does not know how to exploit vulnerabilities to get onto a device, users are always willing to assist it. Intruders employ social engineering to coax users into installing malware, opening an infected file or visiting a bogus site.
For example, the malware Android.plankton, which collects and transmits information about infected devices to criminals , had been downloaded 150,000 times by users from Google Play before it was removed from the portal by its administration.
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