New Google Android Threat: Malicious App Installed By 40 Million Play Store Users

Google Android users have been put at risk again after it emerged a keyboard app called ai.type previously available on the Play Store has been making millions of unauthorized purchases of premium digital content

Google Android users have been put at risk again, after it emerged a keyboard app called ai.typepreviously available on the Play Store has been making millions of unauthorized purchases of premium digital content.

Hiding in plain sight by masking its activity to spoof apps such as Soundcloud, the rogue Google Android app delivers millions of invisible ads and fake clicks, passing on user data about real views, clicks and purchases to ad networks. But in the background, without your knowledge, the Android app turns your device into “one of the many bots of the network controlled by fraudsters to commit ad fraud,” says Guy Krief, CEO of Upstream.

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