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Samsung Galaxy Store could feature malware-ridden apps

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Samsung Galaxy Store could feature malware-ridden apps

Samsung is one of the few brands that provides a second solution for the system applications that are obtained when an Android smartphone is first launched. This includes its own browser, its own voice assistant, and even its own app store. The Samsung Galaxy Store does not have as many options as the Google Play store, but a new report from Android Police suggests that it has a bigger problem.

According to reports, the Galaxy Store is flooded with fake cloned apps, which may carry malware. Recently, multiple clones of the Showbox application have been discovered on the app, and these may have been downloaded by many unsuspecting customers. Twitter user Max Weinbach recently pointed out the existence of these cloned apps on Twitter, and also mentioned similar problems he had found on Huawei smartphones. Check out the tweet below. The report added that analysis of the VirusTotal application revealed multiple “low-level alerts from security vendors, ranging from “risky software” to adware.” These applications also request permission to run sensitive data, including access to contacts. People, call logs and phone calls.

Interestingly, when users try to install these cloned applications from the Galaxy Store, the Google Play Protect function on the Android phone is activated to warn users of the potential risks of installing such applications. However, the fact that there are multiple such apps in Samsung’s official app store is worrying. As we all know, OEMs that have their own app store on a custom Android skin will encourage users to use their own app store instead of the Google Play store to download new apps and games and update existing ones. This includes Galaxy Store on OneUI, GetApps on MIUI, and more examples.

Although pushing users to use your own store is not a problem, the presence of harmful apps on platforms that should be risk-free is a problem. I hope that Samsung will get rid of these applications and pay close attention to fake applications that try to enter the Galaxy Store in the future.

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

Tom Holland, last seen in Apple TV show The Crowded Room last year, has signed his next with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan.

Tom Holland is going to have a very busy 2025. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the actor has signed Christopher Nolan’s next, which he will juggle the filming of with that of the long-awaited Spider-Man 4. (Also Read – Tom Holland shares why he left alcohol behind: ‘Struggling without booze…’)

Tom signs Nolan’s next

This will mark the first collaboration between Tom and Christopher. While details of his next directorial aren’t known yet, it’s most likely not to have a contemporary setting. It’ll be either set in the past like, his previous film Oppenheimer (2023), or in the future like Interstellar (2014). Matt Damon, who has worked with Christopher in both, has also come on board his next.

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Christopher’s next will be co-produced by him and his wife Emma Thomas’ banner Syncopy Inc and Universal Pictures, as the two production houses will team up after the Academy Award-winning blockbuster Oppenheimer last year. Prior to Oppenheimer, Christopher collaborated mostly with Warner Bros before having a fallout post the debacle of Tenet (2020).

Warner Bros then went on to produce Greta Gerwig’s musical satire Barbie, which clashed with Oppenheimer at the box office and even outperformed it globally. Warner Bros offered Christopher a cheque for the fees he waived off for helming Tenet during the pandemic. While Christopher graciously accepted the belated remuneration, he still went on to pitch his next to Warner Bros.

Tom’s busy schedule

Tom didn’t have any release this year. His last outing was Todd Graff’s psychological thriller show The Crowded Room on Apple TV last year. He’ll juggle the filming of Christopher Nolan’s next and Spider-Man 4 in 2025. Tom has been playing the superhero ever since Russo Brothers’ 2016 blockbuster Captain America: Civil War. He’s slipped into the Peter Parker shoes post that for three standalone films and two Avengers movies. Spider-Man 4 will be helmed by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton.

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As Tom’s girlfriend and co-star Zendaya will be busy filming Spider-Man 4 in 2025, she’ll reprise her role of Chani in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi spectacle Dune 3 only in 2026. Meanwhile, Tom is also likely to make an appearance as Spider-Man in Russo Brothers’ Avengers: Doomsday, which will go on floors in the spring of 2025.

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