Ad Vulna: Vulnerable and Aggressive Adware Threatening Millions

This is why I&#x27;m really hesitant to use popular libraries like Flurry.<p>I&#x27;m making a kids game &amp; really want to respect the kids&#x27; privacy. I can&#x27;t hand the keys to all that data &amp; possible backdoors to some &quot;free&quot; third party library &amp; just trust they will play nice.

They need a new term -- &quot;Vulna&quot; is just too close in sound and in look to &quot;vulva.&quot; Maybe it is on purpose to catch people&#x27;s attention (it caught mine in a near spit-take), but that would be a poor decision for anyone who wants to be taken seriously.

I&#x27;m interested if anyone has been able to identify the library or spot any clues other than the image from the article <a href="http://www.fireeye.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/screen.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fireeye.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;scree...</a>

What kind of perverted joke is this? They&#x27;re making grandiose claims about severe security threats without telling us which library it is? This is pure spam. I&#x27;m going to flag this nonsense.

Key quote:<p>&quot;We have analyzed all Android apps with over one million downloads on Google Play, and we found that over 1.8% of these apps used Vulna. These affected apps have been downloaded more than 200 million times in total.&quot;

This must be a false report, because according to Eric Schmidt, Android is more secure than the iPhone. There cannot be 200 million vulnerable downloads.

Typical Android