{"id":11340,"date":"2018-02-02T02:20:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T10:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/02\/02\/news-5111\/"},"modified":"2018-02-02T02:20:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T10:20:04","slug":"news-5111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/02\/02\/news-5111\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of fake apps that claim to help you invest in JioCoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Anand Singh| Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 09:31:05 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After news of Reliance Jio to launch its own cryptocurrency Joi emerged, a bunch of scammers seemed to have sprung into action. The Google Play Store was recently flooded with fake apps claiming to help users invest in JioCoin. And not long after this, Reliance issued an official statement rubbishing these apps saying, &#8220;Any such apps using the JioCoin name are fake and people are advised to refrain from dealing with any of them. Reliance Jio takes a serious note of such fraudulent attempts by unscrupulous persons to misguide the public in the name of Jio and reserves the right to take appropriate legal recourse.&#8220;[1] [1]\u00a0(Source: https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/company\/corporate-trends\/reliance-jio-warns-public-against-fake-jiocoin-apps\/articleshow\/62729300.cms) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Fig 1. Fake apps Quick Heal Security Labs\u2019 analysis of these apps During our analysis, we found that these apps ask for personal information such as username, mobile number and email address, and show a message that the user is in a queue for JioCoin. But, nothing actually happens. &nbsp; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fig 2. The app asks for personal information One of these fake apps (that goes by the name Jio Coin) has been downloaded between 10,000 and 50,000 times. The app\u2019s icon looks similar to the official JioCoin icon and the developer\u2019s goes by the name \u2018Rellance Digital\u2019 (not Reliance Digital) as shown in figure 3. As you may have noted, the same developer has another app called Gio TV. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fig 3. Quick Heal Security Labs reported all these fake apps to Google and currently they are not available on the Play Store. Reported fake\u00a0JioCoin\u00a0app details to the PlayStore. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MD5 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Package Name f89a94b5b7a01644a7e73728bb8a3d59\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 jio.coin d4aaca239e5620f6d4e829edd6f6a8c0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 com.jio_coin.registration 951df008a21aa62068d2e2843c182b9c\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 com.wFreeJioCoin_6351524 7b53f382342cbfba5934aff50705ab82\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 com.wJioCoinIndianDigitalCurrency_6351459 acdb03b659a7d4c850bcdb8f14286f7a\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 giotv.guide How to stay away from fake apps Check an app\u2019s description before you download it. Check the app developer\u2019s name and their website. If the name sounds strange or odd, you have reasons to suspect it. Go through the reviews and ratings of the app. But, note that, these can be fake too. Avoid downloading apps from third-party app stores. Use a reliable mobile antivirusthat can prevent fake and malicious apps from getting installed on your phone. The post Beware of fake apps that claim to help you invest in JioCoin appeared first on Quick Heal Technologies Security Blog | Latest computer security news, tips, and advice.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/beware-fake-apps-claim-help-invest-jiocoin\/\" target=\"bwo\" >http:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Anand Singh| Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 09:31:05 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After news of Reliance Jio to launch its own cryptocurrency Joi emerged, a bunch of scammers seemed to have sprung into action. The Google Play Store was recently flooded with fake apps claiming to help users invest in JioCoin. And not long after this, Reliance issued an official statement rubbishing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10459,10378],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-11340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quickheal","category-security","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}