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McAfee Releases Report for Over A Dozen of Fraud Billing Android Apps

Shery by Shery Williams

Published Mon, Jul 9th 2018, 15:28 | Computers

In a recent analysis of McAfee cyber security organization, users came to know about the existence of infected Android apps that are developed with the intention to perform billing frauds. The apps have already affected nearly 50,000 devices, revealed by reports. With the rate of spreading the program over a huge number of devices and being used on a global level, hackers and other ill-intended partners have been planning to develop new methods and utilities to steal money developing new tools to steal money from unaware users. Security experts from McAfee activate also mentions that they have been tracking a group of programmers name “AsiaHitGroup Gang” ever since they detected about the infected app available for download. The event of causing billing frauds came into play at the beginning of 2016. McAfee claims the team returned with a repackaged version of one of its installer apps named “Sonvpay.C” which delivers fake update notifications and tricks consumers into subscribing to premium services. Source : mcafee.com/activate 

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Shery Williams has been writing technical articles, She loves to write on antivirus software, web browsers, operating systems like Windows, Mac and more. In all her articles, she tries to make her readers updated with the latest changes happening around the technology world.