Fake Pokemon Go apps infiltrate Google Play store

As players roam the street, Pokemon GO uses Global Positioning System on a players phone to place them in the Pokemon world (or at least a digital recreation of their actual location) which is teeming with wandering beasts to interact with. The most installed of the fake apps had 10,000 to 50,000 victims before it was removed from Google Play. If you are able to view the creature from within the camera of the device, you will be able to capture it. Within 5 days of its release, Pokemon Go was played more in the US than the next 99 most popular apps combined, according to data from the AppQuest.io CrowdSource Community, where millions of global consumers anonymously donate real-time app usage and performance data on more than 6 million app versions.

Because so many people are downloading and playing Pokemon Go, you can probably expect more fake apps like these to pop out of the woodwork.

Anyone who runs that app would find his/her phone completely frozen, forcing to restart by removing the battery. After rebooting, the PI Network app seemed to disappear, but in fact continued running in the background and generating fake ad clicks. ESET said that Google has already removed the apps-“Pokemon GO Ultimate” “Guides & Cheats for Pokemon GO” and “Install Pokemongo”-from the app store, on its recommendation”.

The plague of malicious tricks surrounding the augmented-reality game highlights the security risk posed by Android’s relatively open app ecosystem.

Google has immediately pulled Pokemon Go Ultimate from its Google Play store. Navigate to Settings Security and turn on Installation of apps from unknown sources to install the APK.

Pokemon GO’s enormous launch has caused more than its fair share of problems, even beyond the people getting robbed or driving into trees that you may have heard about.

Statistics released in the U.S. on Wednesday claimed Pokemon Go had already surpassed the number of daily users of Candy Crush Saga, the hugely popular puzzle game from UK developer King. The company will launch the game in India, Singapore, Taiwan and Indonesia within the next few days.