Malicious mobile apps: Spoofed and hidden APKs
Spoofed and hidden APKs result in fake clicks and subscriptions - and also compromise consumer data. Find out how to protect your brand.
Category: Fraud
How to identify malicious apps on Google Play Store
How can you protect yourself from downloading malicious apps on the Google Play Store? Here we share 12 tips for identifying suspicious or fraudulent apps and keeping yourself safe.
App Malware Reads Notifications Blood Pressure Tracker App
MCP MOBILE MALWARE UPDATE As a leading mobile compliance and fraud specialist company, MCP Insight continually tests and validates potential issues coming from websites or malicious applications. Our objective in this article is to reflect on a recent discovery of a malicious application called “Blood Pressure Tracker App”. The malicious nature of the application enables it…
Advertising monitoring identifies ‘sick’ attempts to capitalise on Ukraine War
London 17/03/2022 – Leading advertising fraud monitoring provider, MCP Insight, has revealed that in the past weeks its advertising monitoring has picked up the emergence of shameless attempts to capitalise on the public’s empathy for the plight of the citizens of Ukraine. Soon after the Russian invasion, the MCP SCANNER monitoring tool began identifying emotive banner…
DCB Fraud APKs Sleeping Longer
MCP’s fraud investigations team has noticed app malware activation patterns changing over the last 3 years. MCP identifies suspicious apps promoted to users via advertising seen in its Scanner monitoring tool. These apps are downloaded onto mobile devices to replicate the User experience. To a User, the advert and app look normal. More often than…
Red Letter Day in Saudi for MCP Fraud Team!!
A record day in Saudi Arabia yesterday – MCP’s fraud investigations team were kept busy tracking a total of 14 fraud attacks, affecting 14 different services. The spate of payment fraud was triggered from one malicious APK on the Mobily network. The app, Swing Wallpaper, with a 2.4 rating on the Play Store and over…
Combatting Fraud in Mobile Content
In February 2020 MCP Insight spoke at an MEF seminar in Barcelona about the rising threat of mobile DCB fraud, and took the decision, with co-panalists from Vene, Boku and Telecoming, to found the MEF Fraud Working Group. The main purpose of the Group is to share intelligence around DCB fraud, educate the market about…
IP Address Double Shuffle – MCP logs surge in NEW fraud
MCP Shield has noted a surge in examples of a novel type of fraud across 9 Geos (see image), where we are seeing IP-shifting in a single transaction. A transaction is initiated from a Digital Ocean Datacentre (pretending to be on a proper ‘gateway’). The events then triggered for this transaction come from a different…
Headless Browser fraud: A growing threat
MCP Insight have reported an upsurge in Headless Browser usage that enables “Sim-not-present” fraud in multiple territories. A headless browser is a web browser without a graphical user interface. It provides automated control of a webpage in an environment similar to popular web browsers but are executed via a text-based user interface. To understand more about this growing fraud threat and how…
South Africa Network Operators taking hard-line on fraud
In the face of growing complaints, Vodacom continues to decline carte blanche WASP blocks. Their point being that overall, Content Provider services are compliant and more importantly, Vodacom’s payment platform continues to meet growing consumer demand as a convenient way to purchase services – especially where consumers do not have credit cards. Nevertheless, they outlined…