Although it has always been said that official app stores are the safest and most reliable way to download software for your Android other than installing an APK, the truth is that there are sometimes security vulnerabilities. In recent years, Google’s application stores improved a lot by adding filters to remove apps malicious, although sometimes it fails, as we show you in this article, with 35 apps to uninstall.
Bitdefender is a leading technology company in the security industry and regularly performs multiple swipes in the App Store. In this case, on August 17, they published a new report, where detected 35 new applications available on Google Play containing malicious files
Apps you should remove from your device
As we mentioned a few weeks ago, this security company detected dozens of other apps in many other scans that ended up being eliminated by Google. These apps are really smart because once one of these apps is installed, its name and icon are automatically changed. This way, it becomes camouflaged as if it were the device configuration, so that you don’t end up uninstalling it.
The objective that these applications will have is mainly to display a large number of advertisements. But what is more serious is that the developers get overcome the security measures that exist in Android so that the advertisements are linked to malware which increase the danger. This is to extract the information contained as login data and even data to access your bank account.
In the list of applications, there are many that they have over 100,000 downloads
- Walls light – Wallpaper pack (Over 100,000 downloads)
- Big Emoji – Keyboard (Over 100,000 downloads)
- Grad Wallpapers – 3D Backgrounds (Over 100,000 downloads)
- Engine Wallpapers – Live & 3D (Over 100,000 Downloads)
- Stock Wallpapers – 4K & HD (Over 100,000 Downloads)
- EffectMania – Photo Editor (Over 100,000 downloads)
- Art Filter – Deep Photoeffect (Over 100,000 downloads)
- Fast Emoji Keyboard (over 100,000 downloads)
- Create sticker for Whatsapp (over 100,000 downloads)
- Math Solver – Camera Helper (Over 100,000 downloads)
- Photopix Effects – Artistic Filter (Over 100,000 downloads)
- Led Theme – Colorful Keyboard (Over 100,000 downloads)
- Keyboard – Funny Emoji, Sticker (over 50,000 downloads)
- Smart Wifi (Over 10,000 downloads)
- My GPS location (over 10,000 downloads)
- Image Warp Camera (over 100,000 downloads)
- Art Girls Wallpaper HD (Over 100,000 downloads)
- Cat Simulator (over 50,000 downloads)
- Smart QR Creator (over 10,000 downloads)
- Colorize old photos (Over 500 downloads)
- GPS Location Finder (100,000 downloads)
- Girls Art Wallpaper (Over 10,000 downloads)
- Smart QR Scanner (over 50,000 downloads)
- GPS location maps (100,000 downloads)
- Volume control (over 50,000 downloads)
- Secret Horoscope (over 10,000 downloads)
- Smart GPS location (over 10,000 downloads)
- Animated Sticker Master (100,000 downloads)
- Personality charge show (100,000 unloads)
- Sleep sounds (100,000 downloads)
- QR Creator (over 10,000 downloads)
- Media volume slider (over 10,000 downloads)
- Secret Astrology (over 10,000 downloads)
- Colorize photos (over 10,000 downloads)
- Phi Wallpaper 4K – Anime HD (Over 50,000 Downloads)
As we always advise to prevent the entry of malware, you should know how to use logic when granting permissions to apps. While it makes sense for a GPS to request access to your location, it doesn’t make sense for a wallpaper app to request it. This is why the culture of giving To allow without thinking, this is something you are going to have to avoid at all costs.
