Experts at ESET have discovered over 30 scareware uploaded to Google Play store over nine months masquerading as Minecraft cheats and tip guides. Malicious Minecraft Android apps arent trojanized version of a legitimate app, they simply are empty applications that display victims banners to notify them the presence of high-risk threat. Users were then directed to remove to remove the threat by activating a premium-rate SMS subscription. ESET security researcher Lukas Stefanko confirmed that nearly 2.8 million users have already downloaded malicious Minecraft apps.”]
Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/37163/cyber-crime/fake-android-minecraft-apps.html