Facebook sues malicious app developers

San Francisco: Identifying a case of fraud, social networking giant Facebook has sued two app developers for click injection scam, that infected smartphones with malware.

The apps were made available on the Google Play store. The malware that came with the apps created fake user clicks on Facebook ads that appeared on the users’ phones, giving the impression that the users had clicked on the ads.

The app developers caught for creating the infected apps are Hong Kong-based — LionMobi and Singapore-based JediMobi, Facebook revealed in a blog-post on Tuesday.