Malicious Android apps that have been previously reported to Google are showing up again on company’s marquee Play Store with new names, security researchers are reporting. BleepingComputer: Seven of these apps have been “rediscovered,” said Symantec in a report published yesterday. The company’s experts say the author of the original malicious apps didn’t do anything special, but only changed the app’s names, without making modifications to the code, and re-uploaded the apps on the Play Store from a new developer account under a new name. Symantec says it detected seven of these re-uploaded apps on the Play Store, which it re-reported to Google’s security team and had them taken down again.

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Source: Slashdot – Malicious Apps Get Back on the Play Store Just by Changing Their Name