35 Android apps with dangerous malware found in Google Play store, delete them now
India Today
As per the Cybersecurity technology company Bitdefender, dangerous malware has been found in 35 popular Android apps. Now, if you have any of them on your phone, delete them immediately.
Google Play store has several protections in place to restrict apps consisting of malware, but there are times that scammers try out different ways to inject malware-infected apps into the Play store. Something similar happened this time. As per the Cybersecurity technology company Bitdefender, dangerous malware has been found in 35 popular Android apps. Now, if you have any of them on your phone, delete them immediately.
The cybersecurity firm identified 35 malicious apps on the Play store that tricked users into downloading them. As per the report, once the user installs the app, its name changes and the app icon remains hidden on the device. The idea behind such malicious activities is to serve ads and generate revenue through them. What is worse is that developers run these ads through their own framework, which bypasses the protections implemented by Android.
The following is the complete list of malicious apps the cybersecurity firm discovered.
Now, if you have any of these apps installed on your device, delete them immediately. It is quite possible that the apps could have changed their names and icons. Now that means you will need to carefully check the apps that you are planning to install on your mobile device. So, how can you avoid downloading malicious/fake apps?
- Check the name of the developer first. Download apps developed by the original developer.
- Check out the reviews before installing any app on your phone device.
- Install apps only from an official platform like Google Play store (for Android) and Apple App store (for iPhone users).
