More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan

Re:More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan by n1tro on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @11:43AM (#13072195)

I used to work in an ad-tech company focused on mobile cpi offers that for several months paid the salaries of everyone involved by injecting malware in cracked apps on several third party app stores (they were making a profit out of it enough to dedicate a team only for this).

They even managed to automate all the process of "selling" cracked apps on third party stores. It is amazing how easy it is to trick broke 13yr old kids into installing stuff on their phones.

I left shortly after i found out about this.

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Re:More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan by Normal_gaussian on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @06:14PM (#13075566)

This is one of the reasons we may need to look into self-regulation. Name them?

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Re:More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan by Filligree on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @09:52PM (#13076807)

Never mind self-regulation, what he described is outright illegal. In most countries, so is not reporting them to the police once you know about it.

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Re:More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan by Normal_gaussian on Thursday December 01, 2016 @06:48AM (#13078755)

Absolutely, however with self regulation and a standards body they will find it much harder to get Engineers in the first place.

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