CAUTION:Dubious apps are now on play store.

Google and Apple are working tirelessly to ensure that play store and App store are harmless,protected and doubtless the only place you will be downloading apps, at times, few dangerous softwares get their ways via the cracks.
McAfee security company discloses that a familiar cybercriminal gang- AsiaHitGroup- have struck again,using a rebuild piece of dangerous software that has been recycled years back on the Google play store.
It's known as Sonvpay.C and it penetrates the play store through variant of safe apps, like ringtone creators, QR code scanners, flashlights and the like. and it's a tricky one to prevent , even if you are a very intelligent users.
Fundamentally, when you have this dangerous app on your phone, at a time- bring out an "update" notification. Nevertheless, that's not an update , but a repackaged subscription button, which will immediately sign the user up for an unfamiliar paid service.
Different from the old version of sonvpay.C, this does not support SmS messages. Rather, it uses WAP billing- an over - the -air data message to a website - ,meaning it will not be noticed in the users' message history.
The information reaching us from MacAfee disclosed that the dubious apps have been used in Malaysia and Kazakhstan, but if the app notice that the smartphones is not in any these places, it'll still dispatch an SMS messages to a premium service.According to report, the apps have been on the internet since the beginning of this year and MacAfee estimated that AsiatHitGroup have defrauded innocent people between $60,500 - $145000.