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On the surface, Radio Balouch is an Internet radio application, but by ESET researcher Lukas Stefanko led team found that the application is designed to monitor people who download it. Although this application does provide a song play area for the singer, but hidden in the application of spyware will start to steal contact information and collect stored by file on the affected device. ESET send a report to Google, a detailed description of its findings. Google's security team removed the malicious Radio Balouch application within 24 hours, but 10 days later, the original developer has been re-published to Google Play.
Radio Balouch application on July 2 for the first time on Google Play. After deleting it on the line again on July 13, and will soon be removed. According to reports, the application each time you publish on Google Play will install more than 100 people. Radio Balouch may be the first open-source Android application that contains spyware, and can be online with Google Play. After the return from the Google Play app extent removed easily view, Google may wish to adopt more stringent security measures.