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Over 100 Million android users fall under Dark Herring Trap

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The Derrin team spread the scam across four hundred and seventy apps. They instead had an encrypted string, which would lead the user to a webpage view page hosted on an Amazon Cloud front server. Still, due to the nature of Direct Carrier billing, some countries were protected by consumer protection set in place by telcos.