Security News > 2019 > March > Researchers expose massive mobile adware and data stealing campaigns with 250 million downloads

Check Point Research has uncovered two massive mobile adware and data stealing campaigns, which have already had over 250 million downloads combined globally. Both target mobiles using Android, and exploit the mobile app development supply chain to infect devices and perform malicious actions. SimBad’s malicious ads SimBad is a massive mobile adware campaign that has already had 147 million downloads across 210 infected apps on the Google Play Store. Called SimBad because most of the … More → The post Researchers expose massive mobile adware and data stealing campaigns with 250 million downloads appeared first on Help Net Security.

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