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The ad in the lower-right corner of the game Guns linked to an ad that claimed the phone’s battery needed an update.In one of the Android Market’s top 35 free games, an app called Guns, users can simulate target practice by pressing a big red button that serves as the trigger. Earlier this year the hit game Angry Birds was displaying bogus battery ads that linked to malicious apps, according to Lookout Mobile Security. The domain that hosts the ad and download was registered through a service that shields the owners’ contact information.īut PCWorld also found other top free Android OS games delivering similar misleading battery warnings via ads. No contact information for the publishers appears within the app itself.
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What do the makers of Battery Doctor/Battery Upgrade have to say about their apps? We couldn’t find them. “There is no question in my mind that this technique could be used for something far more sinister than a worthless battery app.”
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Worse, the ad links to step-by-step instructions on how to lower your phone’s security settings to install the battery utility, Brandt says. Lastly it periodically transmits changes to the user’s private information and phone-hardware details to its servers. Once the battery app is installed the program sends the phone ads that appear in the drop down status bar of the phone at all times – whether the app is running or not. With a phone user’s name, IMEI, and wireless account information, an attacker could clone the phone and intercept calls and SMS messages, or siphon money from a user by initiating premium calls and SMS services. The installer program for the app, Battery Upgrade, downloaded automatically.Brandt says that one Android battery app, called both Battery Doctor and Battery Upgrade, is particularly problematic: Not only does it not upgrade a battery or extend a charge, but when it’s installed and unlocked, it harvests the phone’s address book, the phone number, the user’s name and email address, and the phone’s unique identifying IMEI number. This ad popped up when we tapped on an ad displayed in the Android version of the game Scrabble.

Phone users aren’t yet concerned about viruses on their phones, but they are worried about their battery being sucked dry.


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As always, you can download everything from the Galaxy Store, but if it's unavailable in your region, we have you covered at APK Mirror: Galaxy Labs, Galaxy Labs Agent, Battery Tracker, Battery Guardian, Galaxy App Booster, Thermal Guardian, Memory Guardian.Why use battery ads as a ploy? They tap into a common anxiety, Brandt says.
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This is the largest update Galaxy Labs has seen since the 2019 release, and the new features are certainly useful. Seeing all of this broken down makes for an interesting read. Yesterday evening this was down to several factors: My S21 was fast charging, running a Zoom call in the background, had Facebook and Telegram open in pop-up view, and Infinite Painter open while I doodled with the S-Pen. You can also tap the indicated points on the temperature chart to see why the phone was getting warm. All of my devices get toasty during lengthy Duo calls, so I may try the cooler setting and see how things go. Inversely, dragging it to the right will raise that threshold by 2 degrees. Dragging the slider to the far left, the phone informed me that it would start throttling 2 degrees before it usually would. The thermal threshold slider lets you adjust when the phone starts to throttle performance. Thermal Guardian aims to keep your phone nice and cool and has some handy features to help make that happen.
