More than 200 fake applications in the Google Play Store were detected by experts from the White Ops Satori Threat and Research Team. The number of downloads is quite large and amounts to 14 million.

As experts inform, the applications were mainly copies of retro games or Nintendo NES emulators.

People who downloaded fake applications were flooded with out-of-context (OOC) ads. All rogue applications that were categorized under RAINBOWMIX group were removed from the Play Store. The creators of the fake applications have managed to place them in the Play Store thanks to the low detection rate by using the so-called packers. According to the dobrepragramy website, thanks to the use of a packer, part of the downloaded content remains hidden for an indefinite period of time, until at some point an attack begins, in this case the display of intrusive ads. Malicious code placed in the application caused ads to be activated every 10 minutes, even if the user was not actively using it.

Ratings on the application varied, however, they were raised in the ranking by placing fake ratings.