{"id":241892,"date":"2026-05-08T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/fake-call-history-apps-stole-payments-from-users-after-7-3-million-play-store-downloads\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:40:07","slug":"fake-call-history-apps-stole-payments-from-users-after-7-3-million-play-store-downloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/fake-call-history-apps-stole-payments-from-users-after-7-3-million-play-store-downloads\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Call History Apps Stole Payments From Users After 7.3 Million Play Store Downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/fake-call-history-apps-stole-payments.html\">Fake Call History Apps Stole Payments From Users After 7.3 Million Play Store Downloads<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/fake-call-history-apps-stole-payments.html\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/fake-call-history-apps-stole-payments.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-08 11:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"thehackernews.com\">thehackernews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"p-author\">\ue804<span class=\"author\">Ravie Lakshmanan<\/span>\ue802<span class=\"author\">May 08, 2026<\/span><\/span><span class=\"p-tags\">Android \/ Mobile Security<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity researchers have discovered fraudulent apps on the official Google Play Store for Android that falsely claimed to offer access to call histories for any phone number, only to trick users into joining a subscription that provided fake data and incurred financial loss.<\/p>\n<p>The 28 apps have collectively racked up more than 7.3 million downloads, with one of them alone accounting for over 3 million downloads, before they were taken down from the official app storefront.The activity, codenamed <strong>CallPhantom<\/strong> by Slovakian cybersecurity company ESET, primarily targeted Android users in India and the broader Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The offending apps, which we named CallPhantom based on their false claims, purport to provide access to call histories, SMS records, and even WhatsApp call logs for any phone number,&#8221; ESET security researcher Luk\u00e1\u0161 \u0160tefanko said in a report shared with The Hacker News. &#8220;To unlock this supposed feature, users are asked to pay &#8212; but all they get in return is randomly generated data.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The list of identified apps is below &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Call history : any number deta (calldetaila.ndcallhisto.rytogetan.ynumber)<\/li>\n<li>Call History of Any Number (com.pixelxinnovation.manager)<\/li>\n<li>Call Details of Any Number (com.app.call.detail.history)<\/li>\n<li>Call History Any Number Detail (sc.call.ofany.mobiledetail)<\/li>\n<li>Call History Any Number Detail (com.cddhaduk.callerid.block.contact)<\/li>\n<li>Call History Of Any Number (com.basehistory.historydownloading)<\/li>\n<li>Call History of Any Numbers (com.call.of.any.number)<\/li>\n<li>Call History Of Any Number (com.rajni.callhistory)<\/li>\n<li>Call History Any Number Detail (com.callhistory.calldetails.callerids.callerhistory.callhostoryanynumber.getcall.history.callhistorymanager)<\/li>\n<li>Call History Any Number Detail (com.callinformative.instantcallhistory.callhistorybluethem.callinfo)<\/li>\n<li>Call History Any Number detail (com.call.detail.caller.history)<\/li>\n<li>Call History Any Number Detail&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/fake-call-history-apps-stole-payments.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake Call History Apps Stole Payments From Users After 7.3 Million Play Store Downloads https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/fake-call-history-apps-stole-payments.html&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgBMXgW6K0BZvt0-jhZ_smX3Uy-nsd9wb9g7Gs7d3G7uH-HIlEcNhEt9xpaKD_62iJol_LK5Expt-6qCuvIf7llqtQclB64I9zZm_i8CIC0lMJiIz8nx6r4C-Nj4cUgd3cQEtu3_lGFa7wcmR6q9otQhCLoB1Mbnmn7NgH6-djLs_ScqanZFNC-EVOwYyO7\/s1600\/android-calls.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24,35],"class_list":["post-241892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity","tag-hacker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241894,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241892\/revisions\/241894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}