Be careful if you find there are two online app store icons that appear on Google Play your Android device . One of the icons are likely to be malicious applications ( malware ) that deliberately to trick users who do not know the difference .
Ruchna Nigam , security researcher at FortiGuard Labs , Fortinet as quoted from a press release received by ROL , Thursday ( 13/2 ) states that trap icon appears after users downloaded an application called " Real Basketball " in the official Google Play store . According to data released by Google Play , this application has been installed on the device 10,000-50,000 .
When the user clicks on the fake Google Play icon , the user will see a blank screen . Although there is no display of any kind, the application silently work and spend a lot of data on mobile connectivity .
Fortinet detects this malware as Android / FakePlay.B ! Tr . Malware that allegedly created by the developers of Turkey made the profit motive would like ( Click fraud ) .
