Spam apps posing as popular applications like BBC News and WhatsApp were discovered in the App Store
SCAMMERS have infiltrated Microsoft's App Store with a slew of 58 fake apps, including fraudulent versions of BBC News and WhatsApp, a top security blog has cautioned.

Less than two months before Windows 10 rolls out on smartphones, a top security blog has discovered a number of fake apps.
The fraudulent apps are designed to look like a number of popular smartphone applications, including Facebook Messenger, CNN, BBC and WhatsApp.
Some of these fake apps simply collect data on the smartphone owner and use it display advertisements.

However a select few of the fraudulent Windows applications lead users to webpages that force smartphone owners to purchase something.
The news comes hours after Microsoft announced two new Windows 10 smartphones, the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL.
Microsoft introduced the smartphones at a New York press event alongside an updated Surface Pro 4 and the firm's first laptop, the Surface Book.
Two coders – dubbed Ngetich Walter and Cheruiyot Dennis – are responsible for some 58 different different fake apps in the Windows Phone Store.

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