Absolutely relentless ad blocker plasters users withyou guessed itads

A fake ad blocker available outside of Google Play is bombarding Android users with ads, many of them vulgar, and to make matters worse, the cleverly hidden adware is hard to uninstall.

As documented by antimalware provider Malwarebytes, Ads Blocker, as the app is called, employs several tricks to surreptitiously and constantly bombard users with ads.

Data in malware-scanning service VirusTotal suggests the app is spreading in the United States, most likely when people look for an ad blocker from a third-party app store. A forum post on a French website and a file name written in the German language provide evidence the app may also be distributed in Europe.

After collecting more than 1,800 samples of the app, company researchers suspect the total number of infections is much higher.

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