Almost 3m users download fake ‘Minecraft’ apps

Some 600,000 android users have accidentally installed fake apps which pretended to be cheats for the popular online game Minecraft.

Some 3m android users could also be at risk after unknowingly downloading malicious software from the Google Play store, according to IT security firm ESET.

More than 30 of the scareware apps were available and all were found to be malicious in nature.