New Google Android Threat: Malicious App Installed By 40 Million Play Store Users
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Play Store has been making millions of unauthorized purchases of premium digital content. The Android app has been downloaded more than 40 million times.
Ai.type is a customizable on-screen keyboard app developed by Israeli firm ai.type LTD, which describes the app as a “free emoji keyboard.”
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.