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Google has revealed that it’s suing alleged scammers who are offering malware-laden “generative AI” software called Bard — the same name as Google’s own generative AI tool. Google filed the lawsuit in a California court on Monday, accusing the Vietnam-based group of creating pages for social media sites — mainly Facebook — that include ads for “Bard” software. The web giant’s suit says the defendants are “three individuals whose identities are unknown who claim to provide, among other things, ‘the latest version’ of…

ESET, a cybersecurity software company, revealed that a malicious app was found in the Google Play Store and has been gathering data from Android users since September 2021!The app is dubbed iRecorder – Screen Recorder, with 50000 downloads, and was found stealing Android users' data since September 19, 2021. According to ESET, “On September 19th, 2021, the iRecorder - Screen Recorder app was first uploaded to the store without any harmful features. However, it appears that dangerous functionality was later added; this…

A small collection of 16 apps laden with malware have been discovered and now removed on Google Play Store. These apps have been assumed to have over 20 million installations and are making their creators a lot of money. If you have any of these apps, it is advised you uninstall them right now.What's the malwareUnlike malwares that steals a user's private and personal data, this particular malware starts browsing websites in the background to generate fake views and clicks. With this background task, the phone's battery…