12 million at risk from predatory Android apps — avoid these like the plague

One phone with skull and crossbones on screen among several other clean-looking phones.

Scammers have taken advantage of the current economic turmoil to trick unsuspecting smartphone users into signing up for malicious loan apps that promise quick and easy cash but with a huge catch.

As reported by BleepingComputer, so far this year, these dangerous apps (generically referred to as SpyLoan), have been downloaded over 12 million times from the Google Play Store.