Google bans eight malicious apps from Play Store

the cryptocurrency industry is getting popular day by day. more and more individuals around the world are taking a keen interest in new digital currency investment. And this craze has been noticed by hackers and scammers, who are taking this opportunity to trick netizens into downloading these malicious apps on their smartphones. According to a report by trend micro, these eight apps were making victims watch ads, pay for subscriptions, and increased mining capabilities to earn more profit. the average monthly fee charged by these applications was around $15 (roughly rs 1,100). the research website has also revealed that these apps were paid, which means that users had to pay to download these apps on their smartphones. the Japanese security

firm flagged these malicious apps on Google play store and asked Google to pull them down.