Quote:Android apps which surreptitiously use the devices they're installed on to mine for cryptocurrency are all the rage these days, but there are others which will just fake mining for crypto coins using ads to make money for the bad actors behind them.

As discovered by Fortinet's Axelle Apvrille, a number of Android apps available in Google's Play Store since May 11, 2018, published by a developer who goes by the name of lovecoin claimed to be cryptocurrency miners.
What made some of them stand out from the start was the fact that they were pretending to be crypto mining for coins such as Ripple (XRP), Cardano (ADA), or Tether (USDT), some of the crypto coins which cannot be mined by design.