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Samsung Update App with 10M+ Installs Charges for Free Firmware

An Android app with over 10 million installations on Google Play attempts to trick Samsung phone users into paying for their firmware updates. The app is called Updates for Updates for Samsung and pledges to deliver “any OS update for any Samsung device ever released”” It also offers to unlock phones regardless of the network operator and provides Android-related content from the developer’s website

Source: or form with Google Inc or Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.”””

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