Google removes 22 apps from the Play Store that generated fake ad clicks

Google has removed 22 apps listed in the Google Play Store. Based on a story published today, it appears that these apps were design to tri...

Google has removed 22 apps listed in the Google Play Store. Based on a story published today, it appears that these apps were design to trick advertisers and collect revenue by pretending that the phone owners had clicked on an ad. The 22 apps that were pulled had been installed over 2 million times by unsuspecting Android device owners.

The malicious apps used malware to pretend to be other apps running on a variety of iOS and Android phones, and were directed to request ads through a command-and-control server.  So as not to draw the user's attention to ...

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