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8th December 2018 03:30
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Is your Android smartphone battery dying out quickly?
If one has found that one's Android operating system smartphone's batter appears to be getting drained more frequently, or that one's data use has gone UP without actually downloading anything more, quite possibly one has been experiencing a MALWARE app that one got from the official Google Store...
22 apps have been identified which are using a type of autoclick-bait built-in-software which fraudulently makes it seem that the smartphone owner is clicking on ads within an application.
These apps besides just clicking on ads that one "never clicked on", and draining one's battery due to the frequent use of the smartphone contacting its data servers ... the apps are getting payloads from the "designated ad code server" to show a whole host of additional ads one's never clicked on, thereby the APP code developer gets paid from the clients having "viewed" the ad (you've seen ad-banners in "free app software", each time that ad is clicked on a bit of money gets into an account for the developer hosting that 'ad')...
These aps are even running when you shut them down.. It's malware and deceptive according to Sophos who found this package of malwares.
The full article HERE - https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2018/1...d-fake-iphone/
These are the apps which one may have put on their Android smartphone:
- Sparkle FlashLight
- Snake Attack
- Math Solver
- ShapeSorter
- Tak A Trip
- Magnifeye
- Join Up
- Zombie Killer
- Space Rocket
- Neon Pong
- Just Flashlight
- Table Soccer
- Cliff Diver
- Box Stack
- Jelly Slice
- AK Blackjack
- Color Tiles
- Animal Match
- Roulette Mania
- HexaFall
- HexaBlocks
- PairZap
At least 3 of the companies producing the above also have similar apps for the iPhone. Sophos says those companies don't appear to be using the malware code on those smartphones.
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8th December 2018 04:05
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