Google pulled a fake app from its app store after it charged users to check their battery (GOOG)

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By James CookJul 7, 2015, 6:32 am352 pts
Google has pulled a battery monitoring app from its app store after security researchers discovered that hackers could have used it to send malicious text messages. The Register reports that Google accepted the BatteryBot Pro app onto the Google Play Store, meaning that Android users were able to download and…

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