Lukas Stefanko, a security researcher at ESET, tweeted details of 13 gaming apps, made by the same developer, which were at the time of his tweet downloadable from Google Play. Two of the apps were trending on the store, he said, which gives the apps greater visibility.
Combined, the apps surpassed 580,000 installs before Google pulled the plug.
Defenx (LON:DFX), founded in 2009 and listed on the London Stock Exchange (AIM: DFX), is an up-and-coming company in the mobile security sector which offers a wide range of solutions for the protection of smartphones, desktop PCs and laptops.