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Google has banned nearly  600 Android apps  from the Play Store for bombarding users with disruptive ads and violating its advertising guidelines. The company categorizes disruptive ads as "ads that are displayed to users in unexpected ways, including impairing or interfering with the usability of device functions," such as a full-screen ad served when attempting to make a phone call. Although Google didn't name the specific apps in question, many of the apps — which had been installed more than 4.5 billion times — primarily targeted English-speaking users and were mainly from developers based in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and India, according to  Buzzfeed  News. Highlighting that malicious developers are getting "more savvy in deploying and masking disruptive ads," the company said it has developed new counter mechanisms to detect such behavior. Trouble in Google Play Store This is not the first time adware apps have been removed from the Google Play ...

A new report shows that 61% of malicious ads on the Internet targeting Windows computers to infect with malware or to steal the information. The malicious ads act as a platform to distribute malware, by attracting users and redirect them to malicious websites which results in downloading the malware. Windows as Prime Target According to Devcon  observation  between July 11 – November 22, 2019, 61% of the malicious ad campaigns primarily targeting the Windows operating system, when compared to other popular operating systems. Next to the Windows operating system, the second most targeted operating system in ChromeOS which accounts for 22.5%, next is MacOS at 10.5% and the least targeted device is Apple iPads at 0.8%. Malicious Ads Source: DEVCON In another  report  published by Confiant, the malicious ads increased from Q2 to Q3. The Q3 attacks are targeting desktop computers, mainly running Windows and they are attacking users mainly in Italy, Spain,...