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Jessica Goodfellow
Oct 9, 2020

Fraudsters deploy hundreds of retro game emulators to unwitting users in Asia

A collection of hundreds of fraudulent Android apps that were very popular in Asia made ads appear as though they came from major platforms like YouTube to siphon away ad dollars.

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