Ai.type keyboard application on Android is silently taking money from users, if you are installing, remove immediately
Security firm Upstream has discovered ai.type, a popular keyboard application with more than 40 million downloads that has purchased its own paid content.
On the surface ai.type is a keyboard application but in fact it runs in the background to display ads, fake clik to make money for those behind. Even this application sends data view number, clikc, real payment to the advertising network.
Upstream Secure-D - a mobile security solution that blocked 14 million transactions with a value of up to USD 18 million on suspicion of who.type was sent from 110,000 devices.
ai.type is developed by ai.type LTD, a company from Israel. The company's website is currently inaccessible and it says "this site has been hacked," but the developer apps are still available on the Play Store.
Upstream said ai.type requires users to grant advanced rights on the device such as retrieving photos, videos, contacts, memory, sending messages. This allows it to read user data, access accounts logged on the device, record everything around.

Upstream recommends that users who are installing one of their applications.type should immediately remove and check information such as transaction messages, electronic invoices.
Guy Krief, chief executive of Upstream, said the fraudulent advertising market is worth up to US $ 40 billion a year. It is estimated that one in every 10 phones is infected with advertising malware, they hide in legitimate shell applications, causing carriers and users to pay for unknown reasons.
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