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New Android Trojan Leads Users to Scam Sites via Notifications

A new Android Trojan that uses web push notifications to redirect users to scam and fraudulent sites has been discovered by security researchers on Google’s Play Store. The AndroidFakeApp.174 Trojan loads a site hardcoded in its settings using the Google Chrome web browser, a website which asks the targets to allow notifications under the guise of verifying that the user is not a bot. Android users who already have been tricked into subscribing to this type of spam push notifications are advised to go through the following steps to get rid of them.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-android-trojan-leads-users-to-scam-sites-via-notifications/

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