Security researchers have issued a warning over multiple\u00a0VPN apps available from Google Play.<\/p>\n
According to a report by TorrentFreak<\/strong><\/a>, the researchers stated that\u00a038% of the apps tested “contained some kind of malware”.<\/p>\n 67% featured at least one third-party tracking library, and more than 80% leaked IPv6 traffic.<\/p>\n The hundreds of “all-in-one” VPN apps available\u00a0on Google\u2019s Play store which were investigated by\u00a0CSIRO\u2019s Data 61 “presented significant security issues”, according to the report.<\/p>\n “The researchers found that among the 283 apps tested, even the highest-ranked and most-downloaded apps can carry nasty surprises.”<\/p>\n The malware discovered included adware, trojans, malvertising, riskware, and spyware.<\/p>\n Security researchers have issued a warning over multiple VPN apps available from Google Play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":158089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[397,18448],"class_list":["post-196034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-android","tag-vpn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196036,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196034\/revisions\/196036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Chrome and Firefox call HTTP connections unsecure<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"