The Google Android app has been reported as malware by the Czech cybersecurity company Avast’s antivirus SDK on Huawei, Vivo, and Honor handsets since Saturday.
Users were advised to remove the Google app from their impacted smartphones very away because it may download and install other apps, send SMS messages covertly, or steal their private data.
A different message was sent to other users, informing them that the Google app was actually a trojan that might grant hackers direct access to their device, enable the installation of malware, and steal personal data.
Users on Huawei’s forum, Reddit (Vivo thread), Google’s support forum (Vivo post), and several other Android groups noticed the false positive issue read more Avast confirms it tagged Google app as malware on Android phones.
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