By John C
A weather forecast app has been found to be secretly making digital purchases of premium services on behalf of the phone’s owner without their consent or their knowledge. What’s more, this is actually the second time this particular app been caught doing this. In January 2019, ‘Weather Forecast: World Weather Accurate Radar’– an Android app from China-based TCL Communications – was flagged by mobile tech firm Upstream, whose ‘Secure-D’ mobile security platform discovered the app was “triggering false premium transactions and secretly harvesting consumer data.”
By Oleksandr Leuschenko
Take a look at the home screen of any iPhone, iPad, or Android device and you’re likely to see the same thing: a neatly-arranged grid of applications. Whether they’re carefully curated or highly disorganised, apps nevertheless provide users with the tools and services they’ve come to rely upon in their day-to-day workflow.
