Author: Dieter Bohn
Last week, a report from the CSIS Security Group pointed ZDNet (and the rest of us) to a very shady app on the Google Play Store called “Updates for Samsung.” It offered to provide system-level Android updates to phones — and, in fact, it did redistribute Samsung’s software, though it was essentially a scam to get you to pay money for said updates.
Today, after we inquired, Google told The Verge that the app violated its policies and has been “suspended.” It is unclear what specific policy Google cited and when it became aware of the app. Last week, the developer of the app, Updato, claimed to BleepingComputer that it was pulling the app to “remove the firmware service portion and non Google payments,” though it defended the app as a...
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Last week, a report from the CSIS Security Group pointed ZDNet (and the rest of us) to a very shady app on the Google Play Store called “Updates for Samsung.” It offered to provide system-level Android updates to phones — and, in fact, it did redistribute Samsung’s software, though it was essentially a scam to get you to pay money for said updates.
Today, after we inquired, Google told The Verge that the app violated its policies and has been “suspended.” It is unclear what specific policy Google cited and when it became aware of the app. Last week, the developer of the app, Updato, claimed to BleepingComputer that it was pulling the app to “remove the firmware service portion and non Google payments,” though it defended the app as a...
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