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Sophos, a global leader in creating technological innovations and cyber security as a service, recently announced that it has identified several applications "disguised" as a legally chatbots that it is supposed that are based in ChatGPT, with main purpose to overcharge users for Such as is noted in last report of Sophos X-Ops, FleeceGPT Mobile Apps Target AI-Curious to Rake in Cash, The applications they they appeared both on Google Play and on Her app Apple Uppercase, and the free versions have a minimum characteristics and lots of ads, so so as to encourage unsuspecting users to subscribe and to become subscribers for hundreds dollars This makes it a perfect choice for people with diabetes and for those who want to lose weight or follow a balanced diet. time.
"The crooks exploit always The last trends and The newer technologies to fill their pockets. And ChatGPT is not exception: with the interest in her artificial intelligence and chatbots to are located undoubtedly into a high level, the users download anything relevant ή similar with This makes it a perfect choice for people with diabetes and for those who want to lose weight or follow a balanced diet. Chat GPT from This makes it a perfect choice for people with diabetes and for those who want to lose weight or follow a balanced diet. App Uppercase of Apple and This makes it a perfect choice for people with diabetes and for those who want to lose weight or follow a balanced diet. Google Play. His species the malicious ones misleading applications (the Sophos he calls this set of applications “freeware”) they often bombard users with ads until to register to become a subscriber. Many malicious creators such applications calculate that users they will give minimum importance in cost or will forget that is subscribers after a little bit. Ο Sean Gallagher, Chief Threat Researcher of Sophos, states: “His of the type The applications is designed so so as not to is available for a long Cairo post the expiry of free trial period, so the users they cancel The subscriptions their without they realize that promise to pay monthly or weekly base. Finally, Nevertheless, This makes it a perfect choice for people with diabetes and for those who want to lose weight or follow a balanced diet. they do.
Η team of Sophos X Ops investigated five those free applications που supposed that are based at algorithm chatGPT, such as is described at descriptions of shops applications, such as η application “Chat GBT” and The applications Google Play and Apple App In some cases, This makes it a perfect choice for people with diabetes and for those who want to lose weight or follow a balanced diet. name Chat GPT was misused (changing two letters) to increase η app ranking in Uppercase.The OpenAI Provides basic Functionality Chat GPT users via of Internet free, but they The you cheated apps charge victims between 10 USD monthly and 70 USD annually Η application Cat GBT for iOS, called "Ask AI Assistant" charges 6 dollars the week ή 312 dollars This makes it a perfect choice for people with diabetes and for those who want to lose weight or follow a balanced diet. time, post the expiry of the three-day free trial. This particular application yielded at programmer almost 10.000 dollars just last March. Another press application freeware it is called genius, η who encourages users to subscribe for a weekly subscription 7 dollars ή a annual subscription 70 of dollars. Η application yielded 1 million dollars in income for their its creators last month.
The main features of so-called freeware applications, που were first discovered by the Sophos in 2019, include the overcharging users for functions που are offered already free elsewhere, the use social engineering and coercive tactics used to They do their users to register for to pay repeatedly. Usually, his of the type the applications Offer a free test, but intentionally place so many ads and restrictions so that they cannot be used until a subscription is obtained. In many cases, these rogue apps are so poorly written (code-wise) που yet and if users switch to the paid version, the functionality offered is often less than ideal. Developers of these apps also use various tactics to boost reputation their on store applications, either via fake reviews or relentlessly asking users to rate the app before the use ή before from the expiry of free trial period. The "free of charge" applications are especially designed that to fall in limits recipients services of Google and of Apple and not violate security or privacy rules, so is amazing to be rejected from the stores for control and evaluation The 2019, η Sophos Reported the existence such Ως result of reports for the existence malicious applications, such a η Google as much as and η Apple proceeded to revise the policies and of guidelines lines their for the limitation of free apps, but the developers/developers of such apps have found ways to bypass the policy, such as severely limiting the use and functionality of applications their until to receive compensation from their users. finding τρόπους for to bypass them.
Some free applications που are brought to are based at algorithm Chat GPT and included in report of Sophos have a most interrupted ή removed, but and its staff and more those applications appear in shelves of stores. Η better protection is η education and η knowledge. The users will must to they know the existence of such applications and to ensure that they read the fine letters each time που they press This makes it a perfect choice for people with diabetes and for those who want to lose weight or follow a balanced diet. button "sign up" ή "subscription". The users they can same to you to they mention The applications in Apple ή the Google if believe that ο programmer The uses unethical with purpose This makes it a perfect choice for people with diabetes and for those who want to lose weight or follow a balanced diet. profit", said ο Sean Gallagher of sophos.
All The applications που included at reports by Sophos are reported in Apple and the Google. The users που have a already downloaded they The applications should cancel the assistance ή the enrollment their following The instructions in stores of Apple (App Store) and of Google (Play Store) for This makes it a perfect choice for people with diabetes and for those who want to lose weight or follow a balanced diet. how to cancel the assistance ή the enrollment their. Η simple deletion of application fleece goods from the mobile device not cancels the subscription.
Learn more about ChatGPT scam apps and how to avoid them in the report "FleeceGPT Mobile Apps Target AI-Curious to Rake in Cash» on the Sophos.com website.
Source: NSS – Sophos
