The app was meant to serve as a combination app store and main app for shopping Amazon. Fire tablet customers also will be able to use their Underground apps and access the Actually Free store until the program ends in ; however, neither the program nor the app will arrive on any new devices beyond those already supported. Participating developers will still be able to submit app updates, and will still receive royalty payments until the program is discontinued in Joshua Drake, VP of Platform Research and Exploitation at Zimperium, who was credited with finding the Stagefright bug that affected millions of Android users, said that installing apps from unknown sources is "a significant source of malware in the Android ecosystem.
Andrew Blaich, a security researcher at Lookout, agreed. He said: "By allowing unknown sources, a user is removing the first line of defense in stopping themselves from installing a malicious app that can be delivered from a number of sources, including malicious website links, phishing attempts and others of which we've seen happen in targeted attacks like ViperRat and other broader non-targeted attacks.
Chester Wisniewski, principal research scientist at cybersecurity firm Sophos, said in an email: "There are a lot of nasty Android apps out there and only downloading apps from official sources is key to a safe mobile computing experience," he added.
The battle for access to app stores isn't new. Because mobile device and software makers like Apple and Google get to dictate the terms to who can and can't access their platforms, competitors like Amazon will resort to begging their customers to essentially forego some security for access to its own app store.
And while Android has always been the more open platform for apps and games compared to iPhones and iPads, which have built a reputation for security thanks to Apple's strict app store requirements and code checking , that is soon set to change. Drake added in his email that Google's upcoming Android O will allow third-party app stores without requiring blanket access to the whole phone, effectively making it harder for malware to install.
Amazon's app store currently has , free apps , thanks to the company's incentive to developers to submit their apps. The company said last month that though it's shutting down its namesake developer program, which allows the millions of Amazon Underground users to download apps and games for free, the app store itself is "not going away" any time soon.
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