440 million Android users downloaded intrusive ads from Google Play Store

Applications with the BeiTaPlugin SDK made the device almost completely inoperative.

Over the past few years, almost 440 million Android users have installed applications from the Google Play Store containing intrusive ads.

Lookout researcher Christina Balaam (Kristina Balaam) discovered the BeiTaPlugin library built into 238 applications, displaying intrusive advertisements outside applications. Lookout notified Google of BeiTaPlugin’s aggressive activity, and she in turn informed the developers of problematic applications. As of May 23 of this year, the affected applications have either been updated or deleted from the Google Play Store.

Ukrainian fraudsters stole money from ATMs in Bangladesh using mobile phones!

The fraudsters broke the connection between the ATMs and the central server, and then devastated the ATMs.

Bangladesh police detained a group of Ukrainian citizens suspected of stealing money from ATMs. Fraudsters using mobile phones to break the connection between ATMs and the central server, and then devastated ATMs, leaving no traces.