Sentences with phrase «downloading fake apps»

ABC News» Gio Benitez and cybersecurity expert James Lyne set up a demonstration at a coffee shop in Washington, D.C. to show how vulnerable people may be when downloading fake apps.

ABC News» Gio Benitez and cybersecurity expert James Lyne set up a demonstration to show how vulnerable people may be when downloading fake apps.

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Because thanks to online dating site eHarmony, the fake phone call can be scheduled by downloading the Bad Date Rescue App onto your mobile for free.

If you're unfamiliar with a particular app, review the fine print before downloading and never save your username and password; all too often we use the same usernames and passwords for multiple sites and applications, and it only takes one of these «fake» apps or software to retrieve and exploit that information.

Victims of pharming scams may inadvertently download virulent software, malware or code while browsing the web, directing unsuspecting internet users to submit their passwords or account info on a fake website or app that appears bona fide.

Typically, they'll download an illegal copy of some software for free, find a «crack» app that can activate the software with a fake license, and then stick both of them on a burned CD or a simple USB drive to sell to suckers online.

But it really doesn't matter, because even if the number of offending apps is getting smaller, the fakes are getting better — and getting more downloads.

That fake WhatsApp app had an identical developer name, and had enough downloads that it looked like the real thing.

Sure enough, the first thing we downloaded off FileHippo included bundled nonsense and the awful Ask toolbar, and then the next screen tried to install some Search App, and the next one a weather checker, and the next one tried to install the same scammy fake registry cleaner that Download.com tried to stick us with.

Scammy apps are not only isolated to the cryptocurrency space, it is estimated over a million people downloaded a fake version of Whatsapp from Google Play store.

An example of a fake Android app which has been downloaded by thousands of users is called Poloniex.

These malicious apps are often designed to look like original useful tools or games or in some cases mimic legitimate apps outright — as demonstrated by a fake version of WhatsApp, which was downloaded over a million times.

Scammers tricked over 1 million Android users into downloading a fake version of the popular messaging app WhatsApp pretending to be the...

Those apps tried to trick users into downloading fake antivirus apps, and some even showed pornographic images.