Within minutes of being informed of 21 malicious apps by Android Police, Google removed the offending programs. All the apps were published by Myournet and did all sorts of nasty things to your phone from trying to root the phone to adding a backdoor to allow more malicious code to be downloaded and executed.
Also some of the apps are pirated versions of existing apps that have been re-uploaded at zero cost to the user, which makes them appealing... and the trick apparently works quite well, because the 21 managed to clock over 50,000 downloads before getting taken down.
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