The tests proved that the Snaptube app – developed by Chinese company Mobiuspace – was able to serve up and respond to advertising in the background without its users’ consent or knowledge. Upstream tested its initial findings under laboratory conditions. The video app is literally a screen for the suspicious background activity.” “ Only the app downloads and clicks on the adverts,” explained Upstream CEO Guy Krief, “ nothing is shown on the handset screens. Unchecked, the company estimates these transactions would have cost the 4.4 million consumers whose devices were affected more than $90 million in unwanted charges from premium digital services. Specialist mobile technology company Upstream – whose Secure-D platform is used by operators to safeguard digital transactions detecting and blocking mobile fraud – has revealed that in the last six months its security platform blocked 70 million potentially fraudulent transactions triggered by the Snaptube app. Snaptube also displays a common traffic pattern and similar URLs and domains as those reported with Vidmate. The Snaptube app features the same piece of developer software code, Mango SDK, that was at the center of the Vidmate expose earlier this year – when another popular video app from a Chinese developer was found to be conducting mass scale advertising and premium services’ subscription fraud.
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London, October 17 th, 2019 – Snaptube, a popular Android smartphone video app which claims some 40 million users, has been caught making millions of suspicious transactions without the knowledge of its users.
Secure-D discovers same developer code as seen in Vidmate case responsible for 70 million suspicious transactions in just six months