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Mobile Menace Monday: Olympics app has more ads than games

🗓️ 05 Mar 2018 18:00:00Reported by Nathan CollierType 
malwarebytes
 malwarebytes🔗 blog.malwarebytes.com👁 67 Views

The Olympics app on Google Play claimed to live stream the 2018 Winter Olympics but instead bombarded users with excessive ads and often crashed. The true intent was to serve up as many ads as possible. It has been classified as Android/Adware.LiveStream by malware researchers

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05 Mar 2018 18:00Current
6.7Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.7
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