Forget Advertisers, Malicious Apps Are Eating Up Your Data

So it turns out that a significant amount of mobile app designers are using clever trickery to scam advertisers out of millions of dollars a year. Forensiq, a security company that monitors advertising fraud, released a report today that estimates that advertisers could stand to lose up to $857 million to fraud this year alone. More important than that, however, is that users are being harmed too.