You can never be too safe when installing a new app on one of the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-android-phones,review-6051.html” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-android-phones,review-6051.html”>best Android phones as hackers and other cybercriminals continue to use data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/malware-adware/these-12-malicious-android-apps-are-recording-your-conversations-delete-them-right-now” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/malware-adware/these-12-malicious-android-apps-are-recording-your-conversations-delete-them-right-now”>malicious apps in their attacks.
According to a data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://ir.zscaler.com/news-releases/news-release-details/zscaler-threatlabz-reveals-67-jump-android-malware-and-40-iot” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow” data-url=”https://ir.zscaler.com/news-releases/news-release-details/zscaler-threatlabz-reveals-67-jump-android-malware-and-40-iot” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>new report from the cloud security company data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/malware-adware/dangerous-android-banking-trojan-found-lurking-in-malicious-apps-with-19-million-installs-dont-fall-for-this” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/malware-adware/dangerous-android-banking-trojan-found-lurking-in-malicious-apps-with-19-million-installs-dont-fall-for-this”>ZScaler, there were more than 40 million downloads of malicious apps on the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomsguide.com/news/the-google-play-store-is-making-a-big-change-to-fend-off-malware-heres-how” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomsguide.com/news/the-google-play-store-is-making-a-big-change-to-fend-off-malware-heres-how”>Google Play Store between June 2024 and May 2025. Though the majority of these apps are no longer available through the app store, the company found 239 applications that it was able to identify as…
