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CyberWire Daily · Mar 2, 2019 · 17 min

Fake Fortnite app scams infect gamers. [Research Saturday]

Researchers at Zscaler have been tracking a variety fake versions of the popular Fortnite game on the Google Play store, along with associated scams. Deepen Desai is head of security research at Zscaler, and he joins us to share their findings. The original research can be found here: https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/research/fake-fortnite-apps-scamming-and-spying-android-gamers

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Researchers at Zscaler have been tracking a variety fake versions of the popular Fortnite game on the Google Play store, along with associated scams. Deepen Desai is head of security research at Zscaler, and he joins us to share their findings.


The original research can be found here:


https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/research/fake-fortnite-apps-scamming-and-spying-android-gamers

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