A global fraud campaign has been found leveraging 151 malicious Android apps with 10.5 million downloads to rope users into premium subscription services without their consent and knowledge. The premium SMS scam campaign dubbed “UltimaSMS” is believed to commenced in May 2021. Most of the fraudulent apps were downloaded by users in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, the U.A.E., Turkey, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, and Poland. 82 of the apps have continued to remain available in the Google Play Store as of October 19, 2021.”]
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2021/10/over-10-million-android-users-targeted.html