Subj : Google blocks Pinduoduo apps from Play Store over malware fears
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Tue Mar 21 2023 14:45:04

Google blocks Pinduoduo apps from Play Store over malware fears

Date:
Tue, 21 Mar 2023 14:34:20 +0000

Description:
Chinese ecommerce giant Pinduoduo banned from Google Play Store following 
over cybersecurity concerns.

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Google has suspended Chinese ecommerce giant Pinduoduo from its Play Store 
amid security concerns. 

The Android maker is urging customers to uninstall the app from their 
devices, including any installs made from third-party app stores and other 
downloads. 

 Bloomberg states that its unclear whether other local app stores including 
those by Huawei, Xiaomi, and Tencent, have made any action against Pinduoduo 
and parent company PDD Holdings, given that the Google Play Store is not 
available in the country. Pinduoduo blocked 

Pinduoduo allows customers to buy fresh produce from farmers in a country 
whose citizens are increasingly conscious of food quality. The app has since 
gone on to amass more active users than Alibaba in China. 

A Google spokesperson explained: The Off-Play versions of the e-commerce app 
that have been found to contain malware have been enforced on via Google Play 
Protect, a service on by default thats designed to check for potentially 
harmful apps from the Google Play Store and other sources, which forms part 
of a larger protective layer that can be enabled with the best privacy apps . 

HardenedVault CEO Shawn Chang explained that previous versions of the apps 
code found on GitHub show malware present. The app appears to use n-day and 
zero-day exploits to target Android parcel serialization/deserialization, in 
turn gaining system privileges. Read more 

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PDD Holdings also operates Temu in North America, an online marketplace app 
whose consumers primarily receive products direct from China. 

This comes at a time when western governments are increasingly less trusting 
in Chinese companies, with many official bodies banning apps like TikTok from 
company- and state-owned devices amid cybersecurity fears. 

A new cybersecurity strategy announced earlier this month named China and 
Russia as the two largest threats to the US. Check out our list of the best 
VPN services to keep you safe



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/news/google-blocks-pinduoduo-apps-from-play-store-ov
er-malware-fears


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