There is an imposter among us, quite literally - the popular gaming app has attracted many flukes and malware carrying apps made to look like the legit gaming application or mod. These malicious apps can range from harmlessly annoying to quite dangerous.
Players looking for Among Us should be cautious as to use only trustworthy sources to install the app from and look into mods and their legitimacy before using them. These "fake" apps range from mock among us intending to swindle off from the game's success to mods, which attracts young players in the lure of hacks but actually drops malware in the system or steal data from the device.
A report from TechRadar says that currently there are 60 fake imposter apps of Among Us including apps that can i) install adware or bloatware or ii) apps that deploy malware and iii) steal financial data.
Why Among Us?
Among Us, a multiplayer PC and mobile game suddenly became popular in 2020. Though it was released in 2018, did not gain much attention until gaming streamers started broadcasting the game. Developed by InnerSloth, a small studio in Redmond, Washington, Among Us has stayed top five on Apple’s U.S. App Store since Sept. 1, with more than 158 million installs worldwide across the App Store and Google Play.
Word to mouth marketing and pandemic imposed lockdown made the game quickly catch up with young players which these miscreants exploited. A young player looking for hacks and mods would be easy to dupe ..
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