![]() Let’s make this clear: ChatGPT is free to use. If you have any of these apps on your phone, remove them. The apps may charge for things other apps do for free or promise a free trial and then charge you immediately for an annual subscription. You hit a paywall that forces you to subscribe and the only way out is to force-close the application. For example, you may notice the lack of a close button. The apps mimic the logo and color schemes used by OpenAI.įor the most part, these apps are fleeceware, which means they’re after your money. You can have some fun with ChatGPT and even use it to help craft emails, recipes and essays, but its popularity has made it a prime target for hackers and scammers. Several fake OpenAI/ChatGPT apps were found on Apple’s and Google’s app stores. If you have this app on your phone, remove it immediately. SuperVPN was removed from the Google Play Store in 2020, so that should also tell you something. ![]() It’s no secret that the Chinese government is spying on us. If that’s not bad enough, a cybersecurity researcher found that SuperVPN was listed under developers with connections to China. And get this: 360 million user records were leaked, including email addresses, original IP addresses, geolocation records, unique users’ identifiers, references to visited websites, operating systems, devices and online activities. SuperVPN, a free VPN app with 100 million downloads across the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, recently suffered a breach. This is especially true regarding something you download to your device. ![]() Free is never truly freeĪnytime an app or service advertises itself as “free,” your guard should go up. We’ve compiled a list of malicious apps that you must avoid at all costs, along with some tips on staying safe while still enjoying your tech. The good news is you can protect yourself with some knowledge and good practices. Here’s what you need to know to stay safe. Just previewing a Word doc could infect your device. Here’s the bad news: Malware can come from anywhere. ![]()
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