By Lily Hay Newman, Wired.com, September 12, 2016
Hack Brief: Beware the Spammy Pokemon Go Apps Being Pushed to Millions of iPhones
There comes a time in everyone’s life when they consider, for better or for worse, downloading Pokémon Go. Now it seems scammers are ready for that impulsive moment to arrive, and they’re just waiting to redirect unsuspecting players to an app store where they may catch more than Pikachus.
New research from the security firm Trend Micro indicates that bogus third-party stores—a long-running problem for Android—have now been surprisingly successful in targeting iPhone users, tricking them into installing ad-laced impostor apps on their devices.
