FaceApp Pro – A Fake Version of FaceApp Emerging in Wide to Infect Android Users – Beware!!

FaceApp Pro – A Fake Version of FaceApp Emerging in Wide to Infect Android Users – Beware!!

Researchers spotted a modified version of FaceApp called “FaceApp Pro” that lure users to install it and try to make money by fool victims and pretending to offer some advanced features.


Recent days a lot more allegation around the FaceApp about the privacy issues, and its features created an over hype and popularity which attracted millions of users around the globe.

FaceApp is a face-modifying tool available for both iOS and Android developed by Russian company Wireless Lab which uses neural network technology to automatically generate highly realistic transformations of faces.


Due to the App popularity, it attracted scammers who have created a modified version of Fake FaceApp and try to make money from the non-existent “Pro” version.


Scammers using an online platform such as fake websites, Youtube to distribute the fake version of FaceApp and compromise them to install it.

Researchers from ESET discovered a fake website that developed by attackers that claim to offer the “premium” version of FaceApp for free.


In facts, scammers trick users to install other paid apps and subscriptions, ads, surveys also victims receive a fraudulent request and force them to allow the notification to display the fake offers.


Researchers learn with the malicious links that redirect users to download the fake version of “FaceApp Pro” from a popular file-sharing service (mediafire.com) where attack host malware to infect the victim’s device.




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