Boffins at McAfee have identified 38 Android apps in the Google Play store that unashamedly rip off the ever-popular gaming sensation Minecraft, but are actually designed to stealthily earn advertising revenue. The apps, which McAfee detects as Android/HiddenAds.BJL, load adverts in the background without the user’s knowledge, and are estimated to have been downloaded some 35 million times onto Android devices.

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