500,000 Duped Into Downloading Android Malware Posing As Driving Games On Google Play (forbes.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @05:22AM from the security-woes dept.

Be careful what you're downloading from Google Play. Especially if it's one of 13 apps posing as driving games created by one developer called Luiz Pinto. From a report: More than 560,000 have already been tricked into downloading the games, which include a mix of luxury car and truck simulation apps, as discovered by Android malware researcher Lukas Stefanko. Once installed on a user's Android device, the games don't actually work. Looking at the reviews on Google Play, users who downloaded them complained it was a virus. For instance, among the masses of one-star reviews for the Truck Cargo Simulator, one noted his device slowed down after it forced him to download an app that wasn't the game itself. Many simply called it a scam.

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Google vs Microsoft vs Apple by Anonymous Coward · 2018-11-20 05:29 · Score: 0, Insightful

Android. Shitty operating system.
Google Play. Shitty curation of applications.
Windows mobile. Discontinued.
iOS. Limited operating system.
Re:TFA is ridiculous by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · 2018-11-20 06:14 · Score: 3, Insightful

People download and install a game(s) that has "masses" of one-star reviews saying "this shit don't work" and "probably a virus" and clearly that's somehow Google's fault. Gotcha.