While official app stores are the safest way to install new apps on your smartphone, they are not without flaws. In particular, the Google Play Store continues to become a platform where malicious applications are running. Although there is an approval mechanism in itself, at the end of the day, thousands of unapproved applications can be downloaded to phones as a result of users’ carelessness, and some of them can really cause trouble.
Cybersecurity company Bitdefender has announced in its new report that it has found 35 new malware-containing applications in the Google Play Store. Stating that these applications can leak their identity information, Bitdefender also notes that these applications create intense advertising pollution. So, what are these apps?
We share the full list of malicious applications in the compiled report and the total number of downloads below. If you have these applications on your phone and tablet, it would be good for your security to remove them immediately.
- Walls light – Wallpapers Pack:100K+
- Big Emoji – Keyboard:100K+
- Grad Wallpapers – 3D Backdrops:100K+
- Engine Wallpapers – Live & 3D:100K+
- Stock Wallpapers – 4K & HD:100K+
- EffectMania – Photo Editor:100K+
- Art Filter – Deep Photoeffect:100K+
- Fast Emoji Keyboard:100K+
- Create Sticker for Whatsapp:100K+
- Math Solver – Camera Helper:100K+
- Photopix Effects – Art Filter:100K+
- Led Theme – Colorful Keyboard:100K+
- Keyboard – Fun Emoji, Sticker:50K+
- Smart Wifi:10K+
- My GPS Location:10K+
- Image Warp Camera:100K
- Art Girls Wallpaper HD:100K+
- Cat Simulator:50K+
- Smart QR Creator:10K+
- Colorize Old Photo:500+
- GPS Location Finder:100K
- Girls Art Wallpaper:10K+
- Smart QR Scanner: 50K+
- GPS Location Maps: 100K
- Volume Control: 50K+
- Secret Horoscope:10K+
- Smart GPS Location:10K+
- Animated Sticker Master: 100K
- Personality Charging Show:100K
- Sleep Sounds:100K
- QR Creator:10K+
- Media Volume Slider:10K+
- Secret Astrology:10K+
- Colorize Photos:10K+
- Phi 4K Wallpaper – Anime HD:50K+
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