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Google pulls dozens of apps from Android Market for SMS scams (Digital Trends)

Digital Trends - Google’s popular Android operating system appears to still be the mobile operating system of choice for fraudsters and malware authors: Google has just pulled dozens of apps from the Android Market because they trick European users into paying premium SMS charges. According to the mobile security firm Lookout, Google has removed 22 apps from the market for essentially being wrappers around a new RuFraud threat; Lookout says they’ve since found and reported an additional five apps bearing RuFraud to Google.


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