Risky Bulletin: India bans app used to hack e-rickshaws in viral videos

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The Indian government has ordered Apple and Google to remove a battery management app from their stores that had been used over the past weeks to hack e-rickshaws across the country as part of a toxic viral trend that mocked drivers and risked blocking traffic.

Videos of the hacked have been spreading on social media for two-three weeks in…