The software security company ESET researchers warn over eight applications on Google Play store that deceived users, leading them to pay for the subscriptions to Premium SMS services and share their personal information.
With the software, the researchers named Android/Fasurke, through which the hackers steal personal information and money from the victims.
During the campaign the IB experts of the software security company ESET found, the fraudulent programs were already available on the Google Play store for more than four months and managed to achieve the download figure of 250,000 1,000,000, means it able to infect Up to a million users Android devices.
Hence, the software security company ESET strives to clarify that it is impossible to obtain followers through a tool or mobile app.
However, the tech giant Google has been notified of the problem and the applications have been removed from the Google Play store.
Moreover, the software security company ESET experts have warned that it is still possible that Google Play store might have the other applications of this nature, hence, recommend the users to stay alerted and beware.
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