Over 300 malicious apps engaged in a massive ad fraud and credential and credit card theft campaign have been downloaded over 60 million times on Google Play Store.
Malicious apps appear to be flying below the radar of Google and Apple security by not taking an approach of installing malware or keyloggers; instead they simply ask for Facebook login information as a condition of starting up the app.
The U.K’s National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC) report addressed the threat posed by malicious apps downloaded through official and third-party app...
Apple boasts of stopping some $1.5 billion in attempted app fraud in 2020 and removing one million malicious apps, but complaints of app-based scams are still quite common.
