article_snippet: Millions of Android handsets have been exposed to malware through malicious apps being offered on Google Play.
article_snippet: malicious apps being offered on Google Play include the Durak card game, along with a history game and IQ test, which combined have been installed more than 15 million times.
article_snippet: malicious apps being offered on Google Play cause unwanted adverts to display on users' phones and malicious apps being offered on Google Play abnormal behaviour sometimes doesn't appear until a month after installation.
article_snippet: malicious apps being offered on Google Play were discovered after Prague-based antivirus provider, Avast, received a user complaint. '
article_snippet: Some of malicious apps being offered on Google Play wait up to 30 days until Some of the apps show Some of the apps true colours.'
article_snippet: As well as Durak, the other other games included a Russian IQ test with up to five million installs, and a Russian history app game, which has been installed up to 50,000 times by Android users.
article_snippet: malicious apps being offered on Google Play have now been removed from Google Play. '