Stay Wary of Third-Party Apps: Malware App ‘CovidLock’ Locks User Out of their Phone

From ehackingnews.com

In an attempt to block misinformation from being spread by developers taking advantage of the COVID-19 charged environment, Google started prevention by blocking any search made for terms “COVID-19” and “coronavirus” on Google Play Store. It identified certain developers’ malicious intent of exploiting user’s concerns regarding the new coronavirus. As of now, Google’s attempt to block searches has yielded positive results with the search for the aforementioned keywords returns no results at all on the Play Store.

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