ESET researchers discovered a cluster of 28 fraudulent Android applications, dubbed CallPhantom, that accumulated over 7.3 million downloads on Google Play. These apps deceive users by falsely claiming to retrieve call and message logs for arbitrary phone numbers, instead presenting hardcoded, randomly generated data to extort subscription payments via Google Play billing, UPI, or direct card entry.
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Fake call logs, real payments: How CallPhantom tricks Android users