[soycd]

Rogue apps rely on ignorance. Social engineering at its most criminal.

Don’t fall for it.

[Paladin2]

Can I buy protection in the gas station bathroom?

[upchuck]

My solution: don’t carry a mobile device.

[proxy_user]

Those Bible apps must have been developed by sinners....

[Swordmaker]

Proofpoint did some comparisons on the prevalence of malware between apps on iOS and Android and found that there were ZERO Bible apps on iOS with Malware but 208 Android Bible apps that were loaded with Malware and 140 that were high-risk. (There are still 3806 Bible Apps on Android were clean of malware if you need one) The infected Bible apps communicate data to over 2,500 servers across forty-two countries. It's not just Christian Bibles that are infected. Qur'ans were also infected at a lower rate in Android. The scanned Infected Qur'ans apps communicate data to 1,440 servers across thirty-six countries. Take warning! -- PING!

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[Organic Panic]

I do not know which Freeper said this a few years ago and I wish I could give them credit.

"When the product is "free" the product is you."

[Scrambler Bob]

M4L Proofpoint for apps

[rhoda_penmark]

Yet they don’t specify WHICH Bible app.
I use one called “Bible gateway”. It’s really good and I recommend it.

Wonder if I’m being stalked.

[minnesota_bound]

Windows 10 is one big app that sells YOU!
Microsoft just copying these guys.

[Fiddlstix]

Click the Pic

[snarkpup]

I heard somewhere that religious web sites are more likely to get hacked (and then serve malware to visitors) than porn sites. The reason given was that porn site webmasters are more likely to be security-savvy and know how to keep their sites from getting hacked.

[kingu]

The thing that always seems to be missing from these articles is ‘we've notified the responsible app stores and can report that all of the suspicious and malicious apps have been since removed.’

And something I've always wondered, especially when they go for entire categories of apps to analyze, is how many people are actually at risk, or if the vast majority of the downloads for that tiny fraction of the apps are folks like this group.

All in all, for the general user, there's almost zero risk from apps. You have a greater chance of your own postman stealing important documents and packages than installing a risky app.

But I guess in the end, groups are seeking to sell kabuki security apps and the more fear they can instill, the more installs they'll get (and likely monetization of their efforts.)