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Padon added that users should probably also stop downloading flashlight apps in the first place.
Alphonso chief executive Ashish Chordia said that roughly 1000 games, messaging, and social media apps are using their software, but with the consent of the users.
"The deception was far reaching in its disruption to the user", researchers wrote in a blog post published on Friday, 5 January.
According to Check Point, LightsOut forces users to interact with ads before allowing them to answer calls or perform other activities on their device.
Covington said iOS users are more susceptible to the phishing attacks while Android users are susceptible to malicious apps.
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However, in addition the malicious apps also sneakily harvested user data, tracked their location and repeatedly and aggressively pushed advertising onto the screen. On the Play Store, their descriptions mentioned capabilities like scanning, cleaning junk, saving battery, cooling the CPU, locking apps, message security and WiFi security, thereby convincing mobile users that they were genuine security apps with the ability to protect their devices from external threats. However, users were still met with constant pop-up ads since LightsOut can "override the user's decision and continue to display ads out of context".
Some of the malicious apps found distributing LightsOut included Flashlight Pro, Smart Flashlight, Cool Flashlight, Network Guard, Realtime Cleaner and Call Recorder Pro, among others. Although Check Point routinely notifies the search giant of malicious apps it discovers on the Google Play store in private, it will publicly reveal more egregious forms of malware that the company believes warrants more attention, he explained.
One of the biggest issues that is leading to this malaise is the rise of fake security software and, recently, the proliferation of fake security apps that appeal to a much broader base of people.
Mistry said users need to use a trustworthy app store like Google Play or Apple's App Store.
While users are asked to sign an end-user license agreement that acknowledges the information that will be gathered by the app, it is still an abuse of user privacy, because collecting and saving that information is unrelated to how the app works, Wu noted.
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