This Android Malware Placebo Earned $40,000

Malware protection for $4, with no battery impact and no ongoing subscription fee – all offered in app that takes up less than one megabyte of space on your phone. It sounds too good to be true. It is. But that’s what Virus Shield, briefly among the top-rated paid apps on Google Play, promised would-be buyers. What it actually did: display a nice little shield, which you could tap to “turn on” your protection. Nothing happened when you turned it on, except for the occasional popup telling you about a completed scan – one that never happened. You can read...

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