Over 100 Android Apps Are Removed By Google This Year!
Android smartphone users are alerted about the apps which they download from Play Store. As each month goes by, the number of banned apps are increasing. Google Play Store is battling with a continuous threat with apps full of malware. Well, most of these malicious apps are blocked before they reach to the online store. At the time, Google discovered the dangerous apps are already deleted from the store. But, it might be too late as you may already have the app installed on your device. The first attack of the year was by the team at Trend Micro who discovered that some of the apps which claim to clean devices could be a fraud and it downloads 3,000 malware variants on affected devices. One of the apps named Speed Clean can launch weak adverts on the screen. Next team BitDefender found a total of 17 Play Store apps with more than 550,000 downloads. These were capable of hiding themselves on the device. Here’s a full list of the apps discovered by BitDefender: The team at VPN pro has said, they got Android apps with some of them asked dangerous permissions. One of the app was found getting access to the camera and collected data from the phone and sending it to China servers. An app with 40 million downloads has found a surprise. Snaptube app is a video downloader app which is free to download. But that doesn’t mean it is free. According to the reports, all the users who installed Snaptube can find themselves paying. The app sigs up the users for premium services without even knowing them.
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