Re: Awww bless
Yawn, next you'll be saying on every article. "They aren't hackers they are crackers - hackers are 1960s beardy types who manipulate software to find out how it works".
Well terms get genericised and changed over time. An app that promises to do xyz but in reality does nothing of the sort, just loads up click-frauds through as many ads as possible and then keels over is clearly only intended to deceive. Therefore a generic term of malware could apply.