Android : Shady reward apps on Google Play amass 20 million downloads

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/shady-reward-apps-on-google-play-amass-20-million-downloads/

A new category of activity tracking applications has been having massive success recently on Google Play, Android’s official app store, having been downloaded on over 20 million devices.

The applications promote themselves as health, pedometer, and good habit-building apps, promising to give users random rewards for staying active in their daily lives, reaching distance goals, etc.

According to a report by the Dr. Web antivirus, though, the rewards may be impossible to cash out or are only made available partially after forcing users to watch a large number of advertisements.

Three notable examples listed in Dr. Web’s report are:

Lucky Step – Walking Tracker – 10 million downloads
WalkingJoy – 5 million downloads
Lucky Habit: health tracker – 5 million downloads..

At the time of writing, all three remain available on Google Play…

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