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.
The messages are less scary than the virus related ones, but they are still meant to get your attention.
It seems a bit backwards but it’s all about making money, ad developers are just as greedy as malware authors–just not as malicious.
Anytime during your mobile browsing experience, if you encounter one of these pop-ups or similar just ignore and it’d probably be best to leave the site displaying them.
