A security firm has revealed that upwards of 2.8 million users have downloaded scareware masquerading as legitimate Minecraft apps off of Google Play Store. According to a blog post written by Lukas Stefanko, a Malware Researcher for ESET, 30 malicious applications pretending to be cheats for the popular computer game wereuploaded to Google Play Store over the past nine months.
However, none of the apps fulfill their promised functionality. Instead they tried to use the threat of “computer viruses” to trick users into activating premium mobile anti-virus software on their devices.
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