Sunday 29 September 2019

Android users need to avoid these apps before they get ripped off

There are so many ways that infected apps can affect you without your knowledge. They can play ads on your phone in the background making money for the bad actors causing the handset to lag and suffer from a rapidly draining battery. Or they can use a premium messaging platform to send texts that you'll be charged for. And some of these apps will disappear once you install them and with no icon in the app drawer, uninstalling them becomes more complicated.

Now, IT security firm Sophos (via the Sunday Express) has discovered some new "fleeceware" that has been developed ...

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