Be careful what you’re downloading from Google Play. Especially if it’s one of 13 apps posing as driving games created by one developer called Luiz Pinto. From a report: More than 560,000 have already been tricked into downloading the games, which include a mix of luxury car and truck simulation apps, as discovered by Android malware researcher Lukas Stefanko. Once installed on a user’s Android device, the games don’t actually work. Looking at the reviews on Google Play, users who downloaded them complained it was a virus. For instance, among the masses of one-star reviews for the Truck Cargo Simulator, one noted his device slowed down after it forced him to download an app that wasn’t the game itself. Many simply called it a scam.

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Source: Slashdot – 500,000 Duped Into Downloading Android Malware Posing As Driving Games On Google Play