The 56 apps had more than one million downloads, according to Check Point.

The move comes after Google hired three mobile security firms to help it catch Android malware in the Play Store.

Most went live in September, and all share a similar code library meant to help avoid detection.

In announcing the partnership, Google acknowledged that the current processes for reporting malicious apps “aren’t designed to scale.”

Evidence suggests the Egyptian government could be behind the activity, which dates back to 2016.

The Android malware pushed fake prizes to generate click fraud. The program’s developers borrowed open-source code from the real Telegram app.