There Is A Malware On The Google Play Store

IOS hater fans or perhaps, most still admit that iOS is stronger and tougher to select applications that go into the application store. Apple is not perfect protection, but many consider better than Android in terms of security.

Related to the protection of users, a surprising discovery in the Android Play Store recently. As reported by Betanews, no malicious application disguised as a game and managed to pass through security checks Google.

Lookout, the anti-malware company, is the inventor of the first time that there is a game application, namely Solitaire which turned out to contain malware.

"Lookout find applications solitaire in the category of games on Google Play which is actually FruitSMS, malware fraud premium SMS which can usually be shipped free of charge. We inform Google about malicious applications and that Google immediately removes from the Play Store. All users Lookout is protected from this malware "Lookout said.

FruitSMS itself is malware that can charge for actual services free of charge, via premium SMS. This malware makes its use premium SMS, so the bill for SMS will increase. This money will be paid to the hacker.

It is quite a headache for many users who do not check for a pulse or bills, so they casually send an SMS when including a premium category.

This incident is enough to make many people surprised that Google failed to protect Android users from malware. Fortunately, there are only a few people who download the game has the Russian language before finally pull by Google.

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