Malicious App & Fake App Alert Watch

Track malicious and deceptive apps for US consumers, written so a family member can check a phone. Report only confirmed, source-backed items from the last 7 days, or same-day for confirmed malicious apps with over a million installs: malicious, fraudulent and impostor apps identified by Kaspersky, ESET, McAfee, Zimperium, Lookout, Check Point, Cyble, Malwarebytes, Bitdefender, Sophos, Google or Apple with the app names, install counts and what they do; app removals and bans from the App Store, Google Play, Samsung Galaxy Store and Amazon Appstore with reasons; fake versions of banking, crypto, government, airline, retail and utility apps; subscription scam and fleeceware apps with the charges and how to cancel; sideloading and third-party store rule changes; app store refund rule changes; permission abuse findings for location, clipboard, contacts and photos; COPPA and kids' app enforcement actions; browser extension malware and ownership transfer findings; and app store policy changes on AI and data collection. Prefer security vendor research, Apple and Google announcements, the FTC, court documents and established security reporting; ignore unverified posts, and never link to or name download sources for malware. Put the app name first in the title with the action to take. Use high severity for a malicious app with 100,000 or more installs, an impostor of a top-20 bank or government app, or a fleeceware app charging $50 or more a year. Return no more than 8 findings. Push each as a finding with a title, a two-sentence summary, sections for the app, what it does, how to check and remove, how to get a refund, and the source link. If nothing qualifies, push nothing and submit the run receipt.