We already know that most of the malware infections for Android occurs through Google Play. Just users trust the official application store and do not download any software without fears. In many ways, the Google itself contributed, broadcasting the mantra that the Google Play is less than 0.1% of malicious applications. But what is the difference how much of them is if the catalog audience is in millions of times more than any other site. Therefore, you should not be surprised that Google Play users again infined, imposing them a paid subscription to any exorbitant price.
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Kaspersky Lab Experts found an application in Google Play, which gives himself to a client of one of the major trading networks and proposes to issue a bonus card to get points for later use in the store stores.
The application itself makes a subscription
Of course, many are registered and do not even pay attention to what they are proposed to issue a paid subscription, agreeing to the conditions put forward. The cost of such a subscription is 600 rubles per week. But, despite the high fee, which is charged with users, this card does not give any privileges.
In essence, this is not a map at all. The application does not contain anything at all, except for the initial screen, which promises bonuses, and a built-in subscription tool. After the victim declares it, it is logical that nothing gets at all.
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And such, most likely, it was a lot. The total number of application downloads, recorded by Kaspersky laboratory, was more than 10,000. That is, if we assume that at least every 10th lead to the proposal of fraudsters, the cumulative income of intruders was quite considerable.
Apparently, this application was not one. The attackers organized a large-scale fraudulent campaign to attract as many users as possible. After all, it is logical that some are interested in bonuses in "Ribe", others in Metro C & C, and third - in the "pyat stroke" or "Dixie".
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For each category, their application was focused. But since not everyone was popular with popularity, to determine the general damage that their creators caused, rather problematic. However, doubt that the victims were, and they turned out to be quite a few, not at all.
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The attackers built an interesting strategy for distributing their applications. Somewhere they got the numbers of potential victims and organized newsletter messages with reference to their applications. Many many are kept and downloading software, agree to the design of the subscription, counting on receiving bonus points, well, and what happens next - you yourself already know.
Kaspersky Lab experts recommend as one of the preventive measures to protect against malicious software to install antivirus. But all the irony lies in the fact that, in fact, the application that talks about is not containing a malicious code, and all its harmfulness is in the subscription, which scammers are pushing their victims.
And this does not detect any antivirus, so only Google is able to prohibit this practice. Apple, by the way, is already doing this, sways from the App Store application with unreasonably high subscription. In the meantime, the search giant did not take it, everything that remains you is, just do not move on to the left links and do not agree to the registration of paid subscriptions. However, even if they agreed, they can always be canceled.