An interesting slide show, forewarned is forearmed.
October 10, 2014 | BY Armando Orozco
Deceptive advertising targeting Android users is an effective way of getting malware installed. Now some advertisers are using it to get paid through pay-per-install schemes.
We’ve written about advertisers misleading users with scary “you are infected” ad pop-ups in order to get installs of a certain security app and we also know malware uses these tactics.
Lately, we’ve been seeing more and more of this, but this time advertisers are using these banner and pop-up ads to get installs of more trustworthy apps like Dolphin browser.
Full Article and Slideshow.
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