A total of sixteen malicious apps have been identified by its cyber experts McAffee, which are available at Google Play Store, and have over 20 million total downloads
This is malware of the type “Clicker', which means it can control the victim's device and access websites without their knowledge or consent. Apps are no longer available in the store at this time. But it is very likely that many users still have them installed on their phones.
Remove these dangerous apps from your smartphone immediately
As described in the report published by the McAfee, these malicious apps pretend to be practical tools for Smartphones, such as flashlights, task managers, calendars, camera apps or note apps,.
However, once installed on users' devices, these apps have engaged in ad fraud activities. such as random visits to dangerous websites, which generated money for the attacker.
The names of the apps and the number of downloads from Google Play are in the list below.
- High speed camera – Over 10 million downloads
- Smart Task Manager – Over 5 million downloads
- Flashlight + – Over 1 million downloads
- Memo Calendar – Over 1 million downloads
- K-Dictionary – Over 1 million downloads
- BusanBus – Over 1 million downloads
- Flashlight + – Over 500.000 downloads
- QuickNote – Over 500.000 downloads
- Currency Converter – Over 500.000 downloads
- Joycode – Over 100.000 downloads
- EzDica – Over 100.000 downloads
- Instagram Profile Downloader – Over 100.000 downloads
- Ez Notes – Over 100.000 downloads
- Flash Lite – Over 1.000 downloads
- Calculation – 100+ downloads
- Flashlight + – 100+ downloads
If you have installed any of the above applications on your device, you should immediately delete them.
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